Long before books and digital libraries, Ancient Greece relied on memory and voice to keep its stories alive. At the heart of ...

Do the events of the Odyssey actually take place in the Baltic Sea in Scandinavia rather than the Mediterranean as commonly ...

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

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 ...

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.

The Iliad boasts a collection of more than 100,000 volumes of mostly used books covering a wide range of subjects, including philosophy, history, biography, music, erotica and the arts.

It was from Fagles' edition that Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare kneaded their 100-minute, one-actor play, "An Iliad." "There's a lot of framing of the narrative in a modern way, so people will go ...