Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was a larger-than-life figure, discovering Troy in what is now Hisarlik, in modern-day ...
In Pat Barker’s salty retelling, Homeric grandees like Odysseus, Paris, and Achilles are dismissed in passing as venal brutes ...
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At the Nanjing Museum exhibition, a copy of the mask created by Swiss artist Emile Gillieron (1850-1924), who once acted as ...
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Cassandra foresaw unpleasant things, such as the fall of Troy and the death of King Agamemnon, of which the people did not want to hear. But her dire predictions came true. Malthus proposed that ...
The narrative pulses with the inevitability of the Greek tragedies from which Barker draws, towards some sort of retribution by women for the horrors at Troy, acted out against Agamemnon ...
At one point, Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior, withdrew from battle due to a dispute with the leader of the Greek forces, Agamemnon ... philandering father and king of all Greek gods ...
Agamemnon warns Odysseus against the evils of ... who in The Sound and the Fury Faulkner described as “a dispossessed American king,” have begun to fade. Their absence seems to pervade and ...
Tyndareus and Leda also had Clytemnestra, who married King Agamemnon, the big Greek commander in the Trojan War. A lot of Trojan connections here. Shout-out to the set designers of Kaos ...