In a critically acclaimed new translation of The Iliad, CU Boulder classics Professor Laurialan Reitzammer sees the enduring relevance of Homer.

Erasmus quoted the Iliad in a time of widening war: Men get their fill of sleep and love, of beautiful singing and carefree dance, but they never get enough of war. And they never get enough of ...

Just before his climactic clash with Hector, an enraged Achilles in “The Iliad” throws a dozen prisoners of war into a fire.

With the single combat between Achilles and Hector, in the twenty-second book, the original Iliad probably ended.

HECTOR’S VISIT TO ILIOS. (Iliad VI. 237-502.) When now Hector arrived at the Scæean gate and the beech-tree, Round him quickly were gathered the daughters and wives of the Trojans, ...

Now she's back at the Rep with nothing less than Homer's "Iliad," in a stage adaptation she created with actor Denis O'Hare. Her solo "An Iliad," now performed by former Oregon Shakespeare ...

Homer and His Iliad is the best book on the Iliad in years and an exemplary work of historical and literary criticism. It is judicious, erudite, provocative, revelatory, and utterly convincing.

With the first presidential debate of the 2024 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden set for Thursday, a critic calls on Homer and psychoanalysis to survive till November and beyond.

THEATER REVIEW Burbage Theatre’s one-man, one-muse ‘An Iliad’ explores the glory and grief of battle Humanity’s unshakable attraction to warfare and its ramifications are unmistakable ...

The Iliad is a story of war between Greeks and Trojans, but also of “beefs”. Menelaus versus Paris over the hand of Helen. Achilles versus Agamemnon, the king of the Greeks who wrongs him by ...

“Ulysse” will also involve mythological characters from “The Iliad and the Odyssey,” such as Achilles, Helen, Hector and Penelope.