Ranking Madeline Miller’s books from worst to best—from short stories to epic love tales, see which mythical retelling leaves ...

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

Plotting the next gay utopia—less expensive than Long Island, with fewer children—an architect scours Europe for a site, and ...

His D-Fest play “Achilles and Patroclus” depicted the romantic relationship between the two heroes. It was twice as long as the high school production and included four actors playing the ...

The fear psychosis has a significant element in classical literature as well. Some classic examples are Patroclus (dying for Achilles in Homer’s The Iliad), Othello (killing Desdemona in Shakespeare’s ...

Explore timeless tales of passion and intrigue with our selection of captivating historical romances that defy the passage of ...

Leading the way, with shield and spear at the ready you have the larger-than-life (and presented in heroic scale) Achilles, getting ready to throw down with Hector outside the walls of Troy. He is ...

Needless to say, to turn from American political rhetoric to Strictly Speaking, ABC TV’s new public-speaking contest, which will air later this year, is to lower the tone a bit both emotionally and ...

In 'The Song of Achilles', Miller retells a myth through the quiet, longing voice of Patroclus. It’s a love story, yes, but also a slow, aching tragedy. The inevitability of death looms large, but ...