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 ...

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.

Odysseus' journey to the land of the sorceress Circe may conceal a mystery leading to the earliest examples of LSD in ancient ...

Do the famous Bronze Age Minoans appear in Homer's Odyssey, perhaps as the Eteocretans or the rich Phaeacians?

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

Among 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 ...

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the Trojan Horse, outwitted the Cyclops, and resisted the deadly call of the ...

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

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.