If you are someone who until this point has defined yourself as the sort of person who reads Penguin Classics ... sure exactly how or what it was. The Iliad: Is it possible they just didn ...

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.

Homer’s The Iliad is one of the foundational stories of European civilisation. The Iliad is a long poem – an epic – thought to have first been put down in writing in the eighth century BC ...

Caroline Alexander was the first woman to publish a full-length English translation of The Iliad (Penguin, 2015). BBC Culture’s Stories that shaped the world series looks at epic poems ...

In September, 2023, Penguin Classics, the venerable publisher of elegant Anglophile editions and portable canonical texts—Robert Fagles’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Thomas Hardy’s ...

While listening to 16 hours of dactylic hexameter may not be for everyone, the performance has got many Classics and theatre fans excited, with #Iliad becoming a worldwide trend on Twitter.