Chicago-based musician Joe Goodkin performs his song cycle, The Blues of Achilles, adapted from Homer’s Iliad, an epic poem about the Trojan War and the Greek hero, Achilles. Sung from the perspective of Achilles, Priam, Patroklus, Briseis, Helen, Andromache, and more, Joe’s first-person songs capture the horror, grief, and love that permeate the Iliad and the combat experience. Joe’s songs are steeped in ancient and modern war literature as well as interviews and his experiences playing music at VA hospitals as part of recreational therapy for veterans experiencing PTSD and other related war traumas.