Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona recovered a papyrus fragment bearing lines from Homer’s Iliad directly from ...

You’re Dead To Me is the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Every episode, Greg Jenner brings together the best ...

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 ...

Does Homer's Iliad really describe the horned helmets of the Mycenaean Era, or was he talking about something else entirely?

A Reading from Homer by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1885). Philadelphia Museum of Art Homer's Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with ...

Arguments over Homeric translation are nothing new. Virtually since the Renaissance, there has been a clear division among translators between modernists and Hellenizers. The first, in essence, follow ...

The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the key works of Western civilization. But almost nothing is known about their author and the date and manner of their creation. In Why Homer Matters, historian ...

Emily Wilson, who produced this banging translation of The Odyssey and is currently at work on The Iliad, recently tweeted a ...

For the second in our Stories that shaped the world series, Caroline Alexander explores how Homer’s Iliad helped redefine the way we worship – and what the epic poem of ancient Greece can still tell ...

A small, bronze sculpture depicting a death scene in the Trojan War once graced an Etruscan box.

Homer’s Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with the broad scenario of the Trojan war, triggered by the Trojan prince Paris’s ...