For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

The Epic Cycle, also called the Trojan Cycle because it narrates events related to the Trojan War, is a collection of eight poems composed in dactylic hexameter, the traditional type of verse of the ...

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

Most people figure that when Homer finished writing The Iliad, publishing houses were breaking down his door to get first crack at it. Nothing could be further from the truth. When Homer put the ...

In "Rediscovering Homer," Andrew Dalby goes further -- arguing that a woman probably composed both "The Odyssey" and "The Iliad." These two epic poems, written around 650 B.C., are traditionally ...

The Iliad and The Odyssey are pillars of our literary and storytelling heritage ― and of our high school English classes. But historian and author of Why Homer Matters Adam Nicholson is ...

The Iliad--conveniently located next door to The Odyssey in North Hollywood--is our favorite bookshop, filled to the brim with used and rare treasures.

Almost nothing is known about the author or date behind The Iliad and The Odyssey. "It's a mistake to think of Homer as a person," says the author of the new book Why Homer Matters.

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 ...