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” ...

"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 ...

Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life. By Natalie Haynes Natalie Haynes is the author, most recently, of the novel “Stone Blind,” about Medusa, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "Rage – Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles." With this call to the epic muse The Iliad, and Western literature, begins.

Homer’s 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 ...

It's altogether fitting that Microsoft, the corporate equivalent of a bull in the china shop, would market a new text-messaging product by trashing one of the canonical works of Western civilization.

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 ...

Anybody who writes, directs, or consumes any form of entertainment owes a debt of gratitude to Homer. Had the ancient poet not written two of the best—and earliest—epic dramas in Western history, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

We know very little about The Iliad’s emergence; a complex mixture of oral and written composition made what we now have, an epic poem about the effects of the wrath of Achilles on a few days in the ...