Whether an aristocrat, a dead warrior or a young man ... attention paid to Aeschylus' Myrmidons and Euripides' Hecuba and Iphigenia at Aulis. 'Achilles in Greek Tragedy is an excellent book which ...

First argued by the 5th Century BC Greek philosopher Zeno, the Achilles paradox involves a race between the legendary swift-footed warrior Achilles and a slow-moving tortoise. The paradox argues ...