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Classics Connoisseurs Bring Epic to Life with Marathon Reading of Homer’s Iliad

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

Dreading four more months of the presidential campaign? Our critic turned to the classics

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: What Homer’s ‘Iliad’ can tell us about an America on the brink

To the editor: Thank you, Charles McNulty, for putting the current political climate in perspective for me. I will stop trying to convince friends who plan to vote in November for a shameless ...
The New York Times

Myths, Plagues and Battles, on the 12th Floor of The Times

A group of Times employees are reading their way through Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad,” the epic poem attributed to Homer. By Stefano Montali Times Insider explains who we are and what we ...
Greek Reporter

Ancient Greek Parody of Homer’s Iliad Still Funny Today

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