The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...

Though Homer’s “The Iliad” has become nearly synonymous with elite scholars, bards performed it in public and private, cementing its presence in ancient Greek culture. Passing through oral tradition ...

Were Achilles and Patroclus friends or lovers? Commentators have debated this for centuries, but what does the evidence ...

"The Iliad" is one of the foundational works of Western literature and thought. It’s an old story that continues to resonate in our time and has been given new life in a translation by distinguished ...

At the risk of offending the learned and distinguished professors at Princeton University, Stephen Spinella may well be delivering the most entertaining lecture on campus. It’s not taking place in a ...

Arguments over Homeric translation are nothing new. Virtually since the Renaissance, there has been a clear division among translators between modernists and Hellenizers. The first, in essence, follow ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. The classic Greek epic poem The Iliad attributed to Homer regales the listener with tales of the siege ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE ILIAD. Translated by Ralph Blakely with a foreword by Keyne Cheshire. Forge Books. 496 pages. $28.99. Ralph Blakely’s new prose translation is one of the latest in a number of recent renderings of ...