Over the last few years, you may have become more familiar with the term “sapphic” as an umbrella term for women loving women (WLW). However, this goes deeper than the term “lesbian” to encompass ...

This past week, I read “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller, and I have a lot to say. The novel is a fictitious retelling of the classic Greek myth of Achilles and his companion and rumored lover ...

One of the most powerful passages in The Iliad is in Book 18, when a weeping Greek soldier comes to the tent of Achilles and tells him that his lifelong friend Patroclus has fallen in battle, slain by ...

There was great mourning for Patroclus in the camp of the Greeks. Achilles said: “Patroclus is dead and I, too, may die here. But I care not, if only I have vengeance upon Hector. I will not bury ...

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The Achilles of Homer’s The Iliad always seemed a bit of a head case, even by the standards of teenagers who first encounter him in high school lit classes. He had those anger issues, the ones that ...