The Iliad and The Odyssey are pillars of our literary and storytelling heritage ― and of our high school English classes. But historian and author of Why Homer Matters Adam Nicholson is questioning ...

The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...

While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western ...

Some three millennia ago, a blind bard whose name in ancient Greek means “hostage” is said to have composed two masterpieces of oral poetry that still speak to us. The Iliad’s subject is death, and ...

La Trobe University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Homer’s Iliad is usually thought of as the first work of European literature, and many would say, the greatest. It tells part ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Add Preferred Source Many 21st century readers have noticed some delightful gender-bending scenes in "The Odyssey." The goddess ...

The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the key works of Western civilization. But almost nothing is known about their author and the date and manner of their creation. In Why Homer Matters, historian ...

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of heroism, gods and the enduring human spirit. While The Iliad plunges us into ...

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.

The Western tradition has never been more appealingly portrayed than in Rembrandt’s 1653 painting “Aristotle with a Bust of Homer.” Whether you stand in front of it at the Metropolitan Museum or look ...