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...The Iliad tells the story of the war of Troy and of Achilles, the greatest fighter in the Greek army and the man with the shortest fuse....
...In Homer’s “Iliad”, a prominent oak tree stands near the city of Troy by which gods and goddesses meet and discuss their partisan attitude to the city....
...Kadare picks each one apart, chasing down their hidden meanings with the determination of a bloodhound on the scent of a fox....
...Robin Lane Fox is the FT’s gardening columnist and emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...I sat in its front courtyard with its current head gardener, Troy Scott Smith, and discussed the challenges confronting it....
...Disney trotted out Serena Williams to promote a new ESPN docuseries, as well as Peyton Manning and Troy Aikman....
...Robin Lane Fox begins The Invention of Medicine on the battlefield of Troy, where Homer’s “anatomical topography” has long been admired by modern students of the “brachial plexus lesion” (a numbed hand after...
...So, on this theory, Hoare devised his entire landscape as a “new Troy”, a place where, like Virgil’s Aeneas, he put down new family roots. Having tested this theory on site, I think it is wrong....
...And so another day has gone by with an impasse and they need to get together,” Mr McConnell told the Fox News channel....
...The precious metal has risen for 13 days in the past 14, and a 1.1 per cent gain led it to a fresh all-time high of $2,040 a troy ounce....
...Her broader riposte is her latest novel, The Silence of the Girls (Hamish Hamilton), which retells the siege of Troy through the voice of Briseis, the young queen who became Achilles’ sex slave....
...Key numbers: Randgold share price down 34 per cent in past year Gold price down 9 per cent in year-to-date to $1,199 a troy ounce 6.1280 new Barrick shares for each Randgold share under the recommended...
...(FT) The day ahead Fox in focus Twenty-First Century Fox, which is in the process of selling the bulk of its film and television assets to Walt Disney, is expected to report higher fourth-quarter revenues...
...Inside, a giant bear greets customers, a gift from Fox Searchlight after a recent Goodbye Christopher Robin tie-in. Rococo’s serious approach to chocolate is equalled by its sense of fun....
...Gold is down 0.6 per cent at $1,325.45 per troy ounce....
...She told Fox News on Wednesday: “The president is ready if the meeting takes place. If it doesn’t, we will continue the maximum pressure campaign that’s been ongoing.”...
...Spanning 28,000 acres, it is also home to rare species such as peregrine falcons and silver-haired Delmarva fox squirrels. Yet is the area’s peaceful atmosphere coming under threat?...
...“One of Anthony’s strengths and areas of genius was to embrace the press,” said Troy Gayeski, a senior portfolio manager at SkyBridge....
...Later, Mr Chaffetz told Fox News his comment could have been phrased more “smoothly”....
...It is in Arabic and adapted, but rooted in Euripides’ pitiless play on the Trojan women after the fall of Troy. “We all have our own parts now....
...Troy Aikman, a former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, tweeted: “These games are a joke.”...
...We’ll probably keep one jet; we promised Liam Fox there’d be one he could be photographed in. MoD: You can’t win a war without air superiority....
...Three years ago I bought, on spec, a packet of hardy annual seeds called Inula Helen of Troy....
...Robin Lane Fox, longstanding Oxford university tutor in ancient history (and FT gardening writer), was a consultant on Oliver Stone’s Alexander....
...It might be a winner, as the unknown little yellow Helenium Helen of Troy certainly was for me last year. Having talked Helen up, Thompson and Morgan seems to have dropped her for bad behaviour....
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