Achilles faces King Priam in a night-time encounter during the Trojan War, choosing mercy over vengeance and revealing his ...

For a lot of people, reading “The Iliad,” an ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, would be a weeks or even months-long endeavor.

War, Homer teaches us, is the engine of epic: a flow of blood and bone, indifferent to gender, spreading its agony and valor communally, like a feast or a pandemic. War implores us to suspend ...

"The Iliad" is one of the foundational works of Western literature and thought. It’s an old story that continues to resonate in our time and has been given new life in a translation by distinguished ...

The Batrachomyomachia (“The Battle of Frogs and Mice”) is the only surviving complete  ancient Greek epic parody of Homer's ...

When it comes to war, every casualty had a name and a place called home. And in Homer’s “Iliad,” the poet underscored in the epic work that line by line, all of the losses of the Trojan War ...

I started my summer reading with Emily Wilson’s recent translation of “The Iliad.” I enjoyed her version of “The Odyssey” a few years ago and needed the kind of escape from the news that I knew Homer ...

PRODUCTION TO RUN June 19, 20, 22 at 7:30pm, June 23 at 2:00pm, at the Johnny Carson Theater at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. OmniArts Nebraska proudly presents the final main stage production ...

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Homer is often called the—or at least a—“father of Western civilization.” This is not a new idea. To take a prominent example, already before the end of the first century A.D., the Roman rhetorician ...