On Nov. 3, The Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood was set ablaze in what appears to be an act of arson. Boxes of books had been pushed in front of the back door and set on fire, and a manifesto ...

Wood writes about how Wilson has translated The Iliad with an eye toward returning to its immediacy and simplicity, sometimes clouded over by the poetic reaches of previous translators. Because of ...

The owner of the Iliad Bookshop showed up for work as usual in a ’60s-throwback tie-dye T-shirt that left no doubt of his status as a Deadhead. Within a few minutes, Dan Weinstein had greeted ...

RELATED | Read more books news. Need a break? ... Briseis tells the story of Homer's “Iliad” but tells it slant, refusing to cloak the cruelty of war in shining armor and gods' blessings.

The “Iliad,” composed around the eighth or seventh century B.C. by one or more poets we call Homer, is a poem of contradictions. It is the ultimate war narrative, but it covers only a month ...

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.

AQUILA THEATRE (Peter Meineck, Artistic Director) continues their season with Homer's Iliad: Book One. Previews began March 31st, and performances continue through April 25th. Opening Night is ...

Most conspicuous among these is Gareth Hinds’s THE ILIAD: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Candlewick, $27.99), a careful, informative and compelling rendering of the Greek epic poem of the legend of ...