My dear friend Kori Schake has written a wonderful article at War on the Rocks in praise (mostly) of my new book, The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern. The book takes up the subject of how ...

The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller is a retelling of the Trojan War from the perspective of Patroclus, a young Greek ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Hermes, founded in 1866, is an international peer-reviewed journal, focusing on classical philology. It also features articles on ...

Mythological retellings have been all the rage in recent years. This small sub-genre of historical fiction takes the stories that make up the very fabric of our society and adapts them for more modern ...

Achilles was a central hero in the ancient Greek tradition, but he doesn't meet the modern conception of a hero. This is the mythology of Achilles explained. Loni Anderson's cause of death revealed ...

Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles” has become much more than a best-selling mythic romance; it’s a rite of passage for some LGBTQIA+ readers. First published in 2011, this Greek war epic — told ...

Queer love stories in games usually come in two flavours: those that are defined solely by their queerness, and those that are just like heteronormative relationships with the serial numbers filed off ...

Joel Christensen is a professor of classical studies at Brandeis. This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Celebrations are a joyous time of reuniting with family and friends. But ...

I’ve been a Greek history geek since my grandmother sat me down with a bowl of kalamata olives, feta cheese and a book of Greek mythology at the kitchen table and said: “This is your history. This is ...

The announcement of Hades 2 has raised many questions about what figures from Greek mythology will be represented in the much-anticipated sequel. Although the original game had a great cast of gods, ...

Alex Michaelides is the author of The Silent Patient, a psychological thriller that became a No. 1 best-seller. His second novel, The Maidens, also draws on Greek myth, as death stalks the female ...