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

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

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 “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.