If reading books is over, let’s revive the epic oral poem

At some point in the past 20 years, we forgot what books were for. Look one way, and you’ll find them the subject of a fetish ...
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 ...
Publishers Weekly

Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography

It's a great idea: a survey history of how Homer has been read throughout history, taking in Roman Homer, Christian Homer, Alexander Pope's Homer and Homer in Islam, among others. And Manguel (A ...
CU Boulder News & Events

The Iliad’s ‘alien familiarity’ gets a makeover

In a critically acclaimed new translation of The Iliad, CU Boulder classics Professor Laurialan Reitzammer sees the enduring relevance of Homer So, it’s no little feat that The Iliad and The ...
Los Angeles Times

If Trump were one of the rogues from Homer’s ‘Iliad,’ which would he be?

Among the books I have returned to again and again throughout my life, seeking solace, wisdom, joy or self-understanding, Homer’s “Iliad” ranks very high. As with all enduring works of art, it yields ...
WhatsOnStage

Cast of 60 announced for epic Iliad reading

A star-filled company of more than 60 will perform Homer's The Iliad on Friday (14 August) as part of the Almeida Greeks festival. The marathon reading will begin at the British Museum at 9am tomorrow ...