In a critically acclaimed new translation of The Iliad, CU Boulder classics Professor Laurialan Reitzammer sees the enduring relevance of Homer So, it’s no little feat that The Iliad and The ...
Joshua Forstenzer's work receives funding from the Yale Center for Faith and Culture as part of its Templeton-funded Life Worth Living project (https://lifeworthliving.yale.edu/). Homer’s Iliad is one ...
When the University of Iowa's Department of Classics held a digital "Homerathon" last April, planning the reading was comparable to the Odyssey recounted in the final product. “I thought ‘The Odyssey’ ...
The epic poems of Homer inspired the Greeks for millennia. The first epic, the Iliad, tells the story of the Trojan War, according to which, about hundreds of Achaean / Greek ships from all over ...
Homer and His Iliad; By Robin Lane Fox; Basic Books; 464 pp., $32.50. Lane Fox spends the first half of the book making the case that Homer was indeed a real person (a few critics have questioned this ...
For its first outdoor show, CATCO aims to resurrect the ancient power of storytelling in a modern adaptation of a Greek classic. The professional theater company, in partnership with the Wexner Center ...
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — “An Iliad,” a one-man adaptation of Homer’s “The Iliad,” starring Brian McEleney, runs through Sunday, April 2, at the Denizen Theatre. McEleney McEleney is also directing this ...
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, it yields ...
THE Homeridae — “Sons of Homer” — a family guild of Ionian bards based on Chios, enlarged their ancestor’s first short draft of the Iliad to twenty-four books and became collectively known as “ Homer.