What makes this show a candidate for the best solo show in Chicago theater history is that the telling comes at great cost to the teller.

Rereading the epic in January, I found that the quarrelsome and dysfunctional principals had become an oddly familiar cast of ...

NH: So many characters die in combat – I wondered ... But you really feel it in The Iliad, was it hard? EW: It was hard. In a way, it felt like a beautiful kind of hard, because I think there's ...

Another, perhaps related point that is very clear from the Iliad is the essential importance of rhetoric and speech in warfare. Characters in the poem spend as much time talking as they do ...

“The Iliad” begins with the word “mēnin ... Instead of directly describing the characters’ mourning, Wilson works to portray their emotions through actions. Upon hearing the Trojan ...

Around 100 complete English translations of the “Iliad” have been published over ... The scene evokes the complex emotions of three separate characters — the frightened baby, the woman ...

“Ulysse” will also involve mythological characters from “The Iliad and the Odyssey,” such as Achilles, Helen, Hector and Penelope. Homer is known as one of the greatest of the ancient ...