Anybody who writes, directs, or consumes any form of entertainment owes a debt of gratitude to Homer. Had the ancient poet not written two of the best—and earliest—epic dramas in Western history, the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "Rage – Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles." With this call to the epic muse The Iliad, and Western literature, begins.

The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the key works of Western civilization. But almost nothing is known about their author and the date and manner of their creation. In Why Homer Matters, historian ...

Pop quiz: Which is greater? (a) The number of Republican presidential candidates or (b) the number of new English translations of Homer’s Iliad published in the last decade. If you answered (a), you’d ...

Love and war with Achilles, Hector, and Helen of Troy in a hot new telling of Homer’s epic “The Iliad.” Scene from Book XXIV of the Iliad: Hector's corpse brought back to Troy (detail). Roman ...

A Reading from Homer by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1885). Philadelphia Museum of Art Homer's Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with ...

One new book you can buy for either the Nook or the Kindle, or even an old school ink on paper is "The War That Killed Achilles." In it, author Caroline Alexander explores the real world events that ...

Modern-day readers may believe that they’ll need body armor to meet the barrage of challenges awaiting them in “The Iliad.” Exploring Homer’s 3,000-year-old, nearly 16,000-line epic poem, which ...

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” ...

Erasmus quoted the Iliad in a time of widening war: Men get their fill of sleep and love, of beautiful singing and carefree dance, but they never get enough of war. Men get their fill of sleep and ...