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In 2018, Emily Wilson, a professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, became the first woman to write a full translation of Homer’s Odyssey in English. For that translation, she ...

THE kinship of Iliad and Odyssey can never be denied. Despite microscopic dissimilarities which have been noted, the dialect, the metre, and, we may add, with reasonable allowance for the difference ...

Antonin Baudry, who made his feature debut with Netflix’s submarine thriller “The Wolf’s Call,” is set to adapt Homer’s epic war tales of “The Iliad and The Odyssey” into a science fiction series ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Imagine portraying all of Greek Mythology in about an hour and a half. “In order to tell all of Greek mythology, we had to do a lot of work. And in order to get it in 99 minutes ...

In a critically acclaimed new translation of The Iliad, CU Boulder classics Professor Laurialan Reitzammer sees the enduring relevance of Homer So, it’s no little feat that The Iliad and The ...

When the University of Iowa's Department of Classics held a digital "Homerathon" last April, planning the reading was comparable to the Odyssey recounted in the final product. “I thought ‘The Odyssey’ ...

"The Iliad" is one of the foundational works of Western literature and thought. It’s an old story that continues to resonate in our time and has been given new life in a translation by distinguished ...

Both aggressive and non-aggressive strategies of competition pervade the poetics of the “Iliad”, the “Odyssey”, and the “Argonautica”, shaping the expression of narrator-ethos and implicit standards ...