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

(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 ...

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 ...

Let Slip the Poets of War From Homer to Langston Hughes, Battle Has Been a Boon to Verse April 13, 2003 By Wil Haygood ...

It happens that your correspondent once had the privilege of making the acquaintance of Harvard classics professor John Finley, who has been said to have a personal acquaintance with Homer himself. So ...

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 ...

Hughes takes on the mammoth task of poetry curation with a fantastic distillation of major works by poets ranging from Homer and Sappho to Donne and Milton, Plath and Angelou. Buy now £10.48, Amazon ...