Emily Wilson’s invocation in her translation of Homer’s “Odyssey” ends: “Now goddess, child of Zeus, tell the old story for our modern times. Find the beginning.” Musician Joe Goodkin’s recent visit ...
A Trojan Horse is a trick or strategy that causes something to appear benign or even good, and therefore be accepted and welcomed, while in reality it is deadly and brings defeat. As a result of the ...
Make it here in spring and you’ll delight in fields of poppies, and numerous bird species, the same ones that appear in the Iliad ... a 40-foot-tall pinewood Trojan horse.
The Greeks defend their ships from the Trojans in Alfred Churchill’s Story of Homer’s Iliad, 1911. A would-be burglar entered an apartment, saw a book on Homer’s Iliad, and made himself comfortable so ...
History vs. Myth - On Extra Mythology we've been covering the myth of the Trojan War recorded in the Iliad, but that's all it is right? There's no way a massive war like that was actually fought.
He describes how Tough acts like a Trojan horse. He says it is chemically engineered as a proherbicide to penetrate the leaf. Once inside the plant, it is broken down into the herbicidally active ...
The world we live in was built on horseback. Many people today rarely encounter horses, but this is a recent development. Only a few decades ago domestic horses formed the fabric of societies ...
Ryan also believes that people underestimate what romance is capable of. She describes her books as “Trojan horses” to “smuggle in discourse” and start difficult conversations readers may ...