Do the events of the Odyssey actually take place in the Baltic Sea in Scandinavia rather than the Mediterranean as commonly ...

Margites, an early ancient Greek comedy, features an archetypal fool whose hilarious ineptitude influenced Greek comedy significantly.

A new translation of "The Iliad" has appeared, by Emily Wilson, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. (Wilson’s translation of "The Odyssey" appeared in 2018).

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 ...

Homer is known as one of the greatest of the ancient Greek epic poets in the Western classical tradition. Pathé last worked with Baudry on “The Wolf’s Call,” which starred Omar Sy and was a ...

Like her "Iliad," Wilson’s translation of Homer’s "Odyssey" is divided into 24 chapters, called “books,” with book outlines and footnotes at the end of the volume.

For example, freshmen read The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Sophocles’ Three Theban Plays, Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days, and Aeschylus’ Oresteia.

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts of the Iliad by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson. Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow ...

Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography Alberto Manguel, . . Atlantic Monthly, $19.95 (285pp) ISBN 978-0-87113-976-4 ...

In an additional story, Homer is Odysseus, the hero of the ancient epic poem the Iliad and Odyssey by the 8th-century B.C. literary Homer.

When composing the Odyssey, he looked back to the Iliad across a wide distance of the soul — with nostalgia and smiling doubt. This view of Homer does, at least, match the few facts available to us.

War Music: An Account of Books 1 to 4 and 16 to 19 of Homer's 'Iliad', Christopher Logue, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 256 pp., $20 paper All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's ...