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 ...

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 ...

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.

Greek mythology is full of artifacts endowed with supernatural powers, in addition to a myriad of unforgettable gods, ...

Figure 1: 617 Patroclus observed with the Keck 10-m telescope on the Mauna Kea summit in Hawaii and its adaptive optics system.

The painted surface of an ancient Greek vase depicts a scene from Homer's Iliad, in which Achilles, after having killed the Trojan prince Hector, drags the latter's body with his chariot. [Photo ...

I’ve been a Greek history geek since my grandmother sat me down with a bowl of kalamata olives, feta cheese and a book of Greek mythology at the kitchen table and said: “This is your history. This is ...