I read Homer in High School. And slowly, in my college classes in ancient, medieval, and modern Greek history, I realized Homer’s epic poems were at the very core of Hellenic civilization. The more I ...

Casting Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy emphasizes mythic symbolism over historical literalism. Read more at Movified ...

Commentator Andrei Codrescu listens to a reading of the works of Homer in translation and he's caught up in the adventures and the language. Codrescu muses on the effect Homer's narrative had back in ...

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 ...

Ancient Greek poet Homer's timeless wisdom, "There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep," underscores ...

Homer, an ancient Greek poet, created narrative poetry. His works, The Iliad and The Odyssey, introduced lasting literary forms and characters. These epics influenced Western literature for centuries.

MR. SYMONDS’S volumes are are vision of two books, entitled respectively Studies of the Greek Poets and Studies of the Greek Poets (Second Series), published in London ; the first in 1873, and the ...