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.

Francesca Tataranni, a professor of classics, said the idea for “The Iliad” reading was inspired by a group called The Readers of Homer, which performs marathon readings of “The Iliad” and ...

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 ...