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

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

Early in the Iliad, Homer’s epic poem about the legendary Trojan War, there occurs a famous digression known as the catalogue of ships, which names all the Greek leaders and contingents who came ...

Before ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey,’ Homer’s very first work—if Homer actually existed—is named ‘Margites,’ after its main character who was nothing short of a bumbling idiot.

But Homer has no biography. The Iliad and The Odyssey are like Viking longships. Nobody knows who made them, no name is attached to them, there's no written design or drawings.

Did the Greeks really use chariots how Homer describes in his account of the Trojan War, or did Homer just misrepresent ...

The “Iliad,” composed around the eighth or seventh century B.C. by one or more poets we call Homer, is a poem of contradictions. It is the ultimate war narrative, but it covers only a month ...

This week in the magazine, Daniel Mendelsohn reviews a new version of Homer’s Iliad, translated by Stephen Mitchell. He also discusses the translation and his piece in this week’s Out Loud ...

What makes this show a candidate for the best solo show in Chicago theater history is that the telling comes at great cost to the teller.

A mong the books I have returned to again and again throughout my life, seeking solace, wisdom, joy or self-understanding, Homer’s “Iliad” ranks very high. As with all enduring works of art ...

Homer is helping me understand the extent of my naivety. “The Iliad” is a poem about the clash of civilizations, but it is also a song of ruinous personal anger.