Iowa City's Riverside Theatre is entering the final week of performances for their run of The Cure at Troy, a play featuring ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

The University of Exeter put a trigger warning on two classic pieces of ancient Greek literature, Homer’s “The Iliad” and ...

Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

Benny Safdie is the latest actor to join Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, the feature film adaptation of Homer's epic poem.

St Stephen’s School, located in the heart of Rome's historic Aventino district, is to host a 24-hour 'Homerathon' Iliad ...

However, the Iliad is hardly a romance. The abduction scene is only alluded to in the poem. The major theme is war, with the conflict approaching its tenth year. The Iliad is a poem of violence ...

The Iliad has a vast cast of characters ... have catapulted Brad Pitt’s Achilles into pop culture. However, Homer’s epic poem recounts the adventures of a much wider cast of heroes, many of whom do ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...