Christopher Nolan's ‘The Odyssey’ has been mired in controversy over its lack of historical accuracy, but the film is based ...

Out of the darkness, the epic poet Homer arrives to once again sing of the anger and devastation that is war. It is “An Iliad” like you’ve never seen, and celebrated stage, television and film actor ...

Imagine your favorite, most passionate English teacher from high school. The one who loved the books he was teaching so much that he would jump on his desk with excitement and bellow his favorite ...

With major wars raging in Europe and the Middle East and with the U.S. Veterans Day upon us, perhaps it is time to re-engage with the magnum opus of war poetry, Homer's "The Iliad." A new translation ...

Homer, one of the most famous poets of all time, is firmly entrenched in the Western canon as a master of classical literature. His two most renowned works, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are core texts ...

The “Iliad,” a poem about war, death and suffering on the plains of Troy, has taken a back seat in recent decades to the other Homeric epic, the “Odyssey,” in some ways its sequel. Since the “Iliad” ...

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New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus, rather than the "Iliad" ...

The Iliad and the Odyssey, the ancient Greek poems attributed to Homer, are two of the most influential works of literature and have formed the basis of other important literary, artistic and musical ...