The Story of Achilles

Achilles is so often portrayed as the lead in a beautiful, an epic romance. But he was also a man who conquers and takes women to be his property. In the straight, washed version, those two s are often confleted. He's a proud man whose honor means as much, if not more, to him than his life. And it's this toxicity that we're going to dig into to day. You can't have a series on gender and gender rebels in ancient greece and rom and not discuss this side of Achilles.