The contrast between Daniel Mendelsohn’s review of a new translation of the Iliad and, a few pages later, Peter Schjeldahl’s review of the Metropolitan Museum’s reopened galleries of Islamic art was ...

Bruce Heiden, Common People and Leaders in "Iliad" Book 2: The Invocation of the Muses and the Catalogue of Ships, Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-2014), Vol. 138, No. 1 ...

It’s one of our oldest written works: “The Iliad” by Homer was part of a 3,000-year-old oral tradtition, first written down around the 10th century, in Greek. So the idea of a “first edition” of the ...

Pat Barker’s “The Silence of the Girls” joins the ranks of recent books by women that address the classical era, including Madeline Miller’s “Circe,” Mary Beard’s “SPQR” and Emily Wilson’s translation ...

The “Iliad,” a poem about war, death and suffering on the plains of Troy, has taken a back seat in recent decades to the other Homeric epic, the “Odyssey,” in some ways its sequel. Since the “Iliad” ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the major hurdles to appreciating the drama “An Iliad” is its title. You’re probably even looking at this review and saying, "Done that already.” But you haven’t. Even those of us who have read ...