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 ...

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

Ahead of the publication of a new edition of Homer’s epics—which he has illustrated—the artist also explains why he switches ...

Jorge Rivera-Herrans has turned Homer’s ancient epic into a viral musical phenomenon. His project EPIC, born as a college ...

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.

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

Archaeologists at ancient Troy uncover 3,500-year-old sling stones, offering new clues to the legendary Trojan War.

Bruce DuBose returns to the stage in "An Iliad," an adaptation of Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War. The producing artistic director of Undermain Theatre suffered a stroke last December.

Although there are more spectacular ancient sites on Turkey’s Aegean coast, including the magnificent library at Ephesus and ...

The legendary Macedonian King Alexander III, famously known as Alexander the Great (who was educated by the titanic Greek ...