A lone poet, lamenting his fading memory and the dying interest in his art, wanders on stage singing in what sounds like ...

Following her acclaimed translation of the Odyssey, Wilson has turned to Homer’s other, darker poem. She explains how she got stuck for six months – and why it speaks to today’s era of conflict ...

Erasmus quoted the Iliad in a time of widening war: Men get their fill of sleep and love, of beautiful singing and carefree dance, but they never get enough of war. Men get their fill of sleep and ...

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Pop quiz: Which is greater? (a) The number of Republican presidential candidates or (b) the number of new English translations of Homer’s Iliad published in the last decade. If you answered (a), you’d ...

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