How did the Iliad, attributed to Homer and composed in the seventh century BC, quickly become famous among the Greeks?

The immense richness of Homer made him the teacher of the Greeks, their greatest poet and philosopher. Rhapsodes, singers of tales, sang extensive sections of the epics in sixth century BCE Athens ...

Disabled certainly doesn’t fit Homer’s seer, Tiresias of Thebes, who was struck blind by Athena for peeking at her while she bathed. To compensate for the loss of his sight, the goddess ...

(Homer, too, was known for this skill: the action of the Iliad takes place during a short span near the end of the ten-year war, and Aristotle praised the epic poet for showing a dramatist’s ...

This summer’s Shakespeare in the Park festival will include "Scenes from The Odyssey," a contemporary play based on the epic saga by ancient Greek poet Homer.(Jordan Fraker) This summer’s ...

It will be interesting to see how readers of Homer — and there are many, as I know from taking several online courses on the poet — take to the new translation, given people's strong opinions ...