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

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

(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 ...

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 ...

This slender volume—in which Poet Lowell assembles his imitations of 66 “important poems” by 18 poets (from Homer to Pasternak) in five languages (Greek, German, French, Italian, Russian ...