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Millions of Americans score poorly on retirement readiness due to this Achilles' heel. Are you prepared?

You learn so much when you’re forced to clop around town in a great big boot, writes Adrian Chiles. And you make so many friends …

The Greek divinity Nemesis, rarely depicted in art, has no place in the Olympian pantheon of a dozen gods and goddesses. But she’s an omnipresent force of retribution, an implacable force of punishment that arrives, if not sooner, then later.

Homer’s Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with the broad scenario of the Trojan war, triggered by the Trojan prince Paris’s abduction of the Greek beauty Helen, “the face that launched a thousand ships”.

Leaders Liverpool seek to pull 11 points clear of Manchester City at Anfield by inflicting a fourth successive league defeat on the champions

Regarded by historians with either denial or disdain, these women warriors have always had to fight for recognition

“Fear stalks the land, including the Upper West Side,” I wrote to a friend the other day. A week before the election, everyone seems to be afraid.

The first volume of Pat Barker’s trilogy of the Trojan conflict starts with an epigraph taken from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain: “All of European literature springs from a fight”.

In Eline Arbo’s taut production of the neo-classical play, Ilke Paddenburg’s Amazon queen presents a fearsome clash of sensuality and aggression