Love and war with Achilles, Hector, and Helen of Troy in a hot new telling of Homer’s epic “The Iliad.” Scene from Book XXIV of the Iliad: Hector's corpse brought back to Troy (detail). Roman ...

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 ...

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 ...

The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...