But “The Iliad” is not, of course, a poem purely about the clash of men. As Wilson deftly explains in her introduction to the new volume, the epic does not tell the story of the Trojan War.

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life. By Natalie Haynes Natalie Haynes is the author, most recently, of the novel “Stone Blind ...

Beloved L.A. book emporium the Iliad bounces back after a mysterious ... He opened his own bookstore in 1987 at Vineland Avenue and Lankershim Boulevard next door to a video store called the Odyssey.

I n 2017, Emily Wilson published her translation of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey to great fanfare, making a significant contribution to how Homer would be read in the English language. Now, she ...

The great blind bard was purported to have lived some 2,700 years ago, wandering Greece as he purveyed his poetics, most famously the Muse-inspired verses of the Iliad and the Odyssey—which laid ...

What makes this show a candidate for the best solo show in Chicago theater history is that the telling comes at great cost to the teller.

In 2018, Emily Wilson, a professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, became the first woman to write a full translation of Homer’s Odyssey in English. For that translation ...

But hopefully it didn't ruin the books." ... When he first opened shop in the late '80s, he was inspired to name it "Iliad" because there was an "Odyssey" video store nearby.

Once you’ve exhausted your supply of books about The Iliad, it’s time to dive into Homer’s masterpiece, The Odyssey, which follows Odysseus, the wily king of Ithaca, on his 10-year journey ...