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

Ahead of the publication of a new edition of Homer’s epics—which he has illustrated—the artist also explains why he switches ...

As casting announcements continue to roll in, speculation and excitement has only grown surrounding Christopher Nolan’s ...

Adam Kirsch reviews Robert Kanigel’s “Hearing Homer’s Song,” about the classicist Milman Parry, who proved that the Iliad and the Odyssey were the product not of a single mind but of a ...

This struggle, I contend, is at the heart of both Homer’s Iliad and the art of battle rap. This article is part of Rethinking the Classics.

The Iliad: War, Rage, and Sorrow. ... In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. Support KPFA!! Ancient Tales 3-Pack $250.

"The Odyssey" is "the template for movies,” says Jeff Bock, box-office analyst for Exhibitor Relations. “It's very difficult to green-light anything if it's not based on something.

“The Iliad” begins with the word “mēnin,” or the wrath of gods, which Emily Wilson renders in her new translation as “cataclysmic wrath.” This wrath kindled the Trojan War, caused ...

Playing her muse is Sorgen, whose music punctuates and underscores the tale pulled from Homer’s “Odyssey.” Now, “Iliad” consists of 24 books.

The poet’s signature turn of phrase is “wine-dark sea.” That trope occurs five times in the Iliad and twelve times in the Odyssey.A sea the color of burgundy? Or maybe the color of so-called ...