WESTWOOD, California --What happens when one of the world's oldest stories is wedded to cutting-edge technologies on a stage set? Theater-goers here will discover the answer next summer when UCLA's ...

This week in the magazine, Daniel Mendelsohn reviews a new, slimmer version of Homer's Iliad, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Here Mendelsohn talks with Blake Eskin about where this new translation ...

Despite its status as one of the oldest works of literature in the Western canon, Homer’s Iliad boasts enduring relevance. Though it recounts the legend of the Trojan War, it has three key lessons to ...

It's altogether fitting that Microsoft, the corporate equivalent of a bull in the china shop, would market a new text-messaging product by trashing one of the canonical works of Western civilization.

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 ...

Pop quiz: Which is greater? (a) The number of Republican presidential candidates or (b) the number of new English translations of Homer’s Iliad published in the last decade. If you answered (a), you’d ...

The “Iliad,” a poem about war, death and suffering on the plains of Troy, has taken a back seat in recent decades to the other Homeric epic, the “Odyssey,” in some ways its sequel. Since the “Iliad” ...