While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

Homer’s epic poem The Iliad shows the same thing, too. One cannot help but love both Hector and Achilles, though they battle one another and for two different causes. One can easily feel empathy ...

Soldiers are different. They are servants of the state. In well-governed countries, they are bound by discipline, the rule of ...

An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Cassandra, Odysseus…and the wooden horse.

74 x 104 cm. (29.1 x 40.9 in.) ...

Patroclus returns to the battle wearing Achilles' armour and is slain by Hector. When Achilles finds out he is determined to be avenged. Patroclus returns to the battle wearing Achilles's armour ...