As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

I remember just being astonished by the representations of the gods. The omnipresence of the gods in the world of the Iliad, ...

Homer's epic poem has actually been adapted less than you'd think with more recent works, like Dracula or Great Expectations racking up more big screen versions. However, part of The Odyssey was ...

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In the case of Christopher Nolan's upcoming film The Odyssey, an exceptionally old story. But this method of movie-making has been a steady formula for success, so it’s easy to see why they do it.

(Wikimedia/Free Domain) It picks up the story where ... the poem about empire," said classics professor Paul Hay. But Sarah Ruden, who has translated The Aeneid into English, adds the epic ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

Nolan will direct the movie based on the Homer epic poem, written nearly 3,000 years ago. Nolan also wrote the script for The Odyssey, which was described by Universal Pictures as “a mythic action ...