Homer’s The Iliad is one of the foundational stories of European civilisation. The Iliad is a long poem – an epic – thought to have first been put down in writing in the eighth century BC, though the ...

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This week in the magazine, Daniel Mendelsohn reviews a new version of Homer’s Iliad, translated by Stephen Mitchell. He also discusses the translation and his piece in this week’s Out Loud podcast. A ...

Oh, if mythology and the classics had been like this in Mr. Reader’s high school freshman English class. But back then though, Christopher Logue had just launched his 45-year masterwork translation of ...

"Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles ... How the epithets pile up," begins The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker's tart retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of ...

"Rage -- Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles...." So begins Robert Fagles' translation of Homer's "The Iliad," the first great war story in the Western tradition. Rage -- its horror and its ...

La Trobe University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Homer’s Iliad is usually thought of as the first work of European literature, and many would say, the greatest. It tells part ...

New Netflix series Troy: Fall of a City, co-produced with the BBC, is most obviously based on Homer's account of the Trojan War in the Iliad, but there are a number of other historical inspirations ...

Denis O'Hare's adaptation of Homer's epic poem bows at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. By Myron Meisel If war and conflict must be begrudgingly considered the natural condition of Mankind, then 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 ...