Great theater is about telling a story, and it's hard to find a much cooler story than "An Iliad," the epic poem by Homer. A retelling of that poem is the latest entry in the Milwaukee Rep season, and ...

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 ...

WESTWOOD, California --What happens when one of the world's oldest stories is wedded to cutting-edge technologies on a stage set? Theater-goers here will discover the answer next summer when UCLA's ...

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A new translation of Homer's Iliad has just been published by Emily Wilson, who was the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English. The classicist and author Natalie Haynes talks to her about ...

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 ...

Aphrodite rescuing her son Aeneas, wounded in fight, scene from The Iliad. Work on display in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen. Bibi Saint-Pol The Iliad—Homer’s story of the Trojan War, and the battle ...

“The Iliad,” the epic verse of the Greek poet Homer, is known in the world of classic literature as a tragedy. But the fate of the North Hollywood bookstore that bears its name has been anything but.

Homer, whose epic poems rank with King David’s psalms among the longest-running items in heavy rotation on Western civilization’s hit parade, keeps making news 2,600-plus years after his initial fame.

“IF I commit suicide, or if I die in a car accident in the next three months or so, you will know the threats were serious, because I am not feeling at all suicidal and I drive very slowly.” Xavier ...