With major wars raging in Europe and the Middle East and with the U.S. Veterans Day upon us, perhaps it is time to re-engage with the magnum opus of war poetry, Homer's "The Iliad." A new translation ...

Out of the darkness, the epic poet Homer arrives to once again sing of the anger and devastation that is war. It is “An Iliad” like you’ve never seen, and celebrated stage, television and film actor ...

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Jamie James is a critic and the author of the novel "Andrew and Joey." The literature of war begins with literature itself, with “The Iliad.” Homer’s epic about the Greek siege of Troy, composed ...

THE Homeridae — “Sons of Homer” — a family guild of Ionian bards based on Chios, enlarged their ancestor’s first short draft of the Iliad to twenty-four books and became collectively known as “ Homer.