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

A new translation of the Iliad of Homer is cause for a general celebration, especially when the translator is Emily Wilson of the University of Pennsylvania. Having turned her hand to translations ...

If Trump were one of the rogues from Homer’s ‘Iliad,’ which would he be? Principals of the Trojan War, from left: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Ulysses, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon.

My personal history reviewing “An Iliad,” the contemporary vernacular take on the Homeric epic penned by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, has become my reminder of the ubiquitousness of war ...

Timothy Edward Kane stars as The Poet in “An Iliad,” a remount of an adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem about the Trojan War that premiered at the Court Theatre in 2011.

The “Iliad,” composed around the eighth or seventh century B.C. by one or more poets we call Homer, is a poem of contradictions. It is the ultimate war narrative, but it covers only a month ...