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 ...

With poise, articulation and dramatic passion, Madeline Miller '00 MA '01 read from her breakout novel, "The Song of Achilles," Monday night at an event presented by the Brown Bookstore. Miller read ...

Demaris is a reader, writer, and gamer from Juneau, Alaska. She has been writing about games, movies, and other pop culture phenomena since 2015. Demaris has a particular fondness for fantasy and ...

How does a writer tackle the greatest story ever told? Madeline Miller talks about why she focused on Patroclus, Achilles’ slaughtered lover in The Iliad—and what the ancients made of love and fame.

One of the main consequences of the Lelantine War, which for the first time between 710 and 650 BC pitted two factions of Greek city-states against each other, was the destruction of Lefkandi. It was ...

The Patroclus originally was a part of the Blue Funnel Line's Fleet and was converted to an armed merchant cruiser. Patroclus was torpedoed and sunk on November 3rd 1940. While rescuing seamen from ...

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 ...

Like the hollow wooden horse hiding Greek warriors in the Trojan War, could an entire population of asteroids be masquerading as comets? Observations of the binary Trojan asteroid (617) Patroclus ...

Achilles frantic for the loss of Patroclus, rejecting the consolation of Thetis (1803) is a significant Neo-classical painting in Te Papa's collection. Its story is central to our comprehension and ...

The Patroclus originally was a part of the Blue Funnel Line's Fleet and was converted to an armed merchant cruiser. Patroclus was torpedoed and sunk on November 3rd 1940. While rescuing seamen from ...