Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life. By Natalie Haynes Natalie Haynes is the author, most recently, of the novel “Stone Blind ...

In 1611, the English poet, playwright, and classicist George Chapman (1559–1634) published a complete translation of Homer’s “Iliad.” Thus, for the first time, did the ordinary seventeenth-century ...

Homer and His Iliad; By Robin Lane Fox ... He is not the first critic to attribute the entirety of the poem to a single person and admits that any argument about the Iliad’s authorship is ...

The Bronze Age Mycenaeans were an ancient civilization from the Greek mainland known for their impressive architecture, rich ...

But together they aptly describe Emily Wilson, whose new translation of Homer’s epic poem “The Iliad” is one of the most eagerly anticipated books of 2023. A professor of classical studies ...

The more one engages with the Iliad, the more one sees that it is not just a poem of immense power and beauty. It cast such a spell over antiquity that poets and artists after Homer spent much of ...

"The Iliad," perhaps composed in the seven century B.C., was attributed in antiquity to the blind poet Homer. It stems from an oral tradition in which bards performed their work, often playing a ...

A new translation of Homer's Iliad has just been published by Emily Wilson, who was the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English. The classicist and author Natalie Haynes talks to her ...

The “Iliad,” a poem about war, death and suffering on the ... “The Greek Plays.”) Making Homer’s epic sing for the 21st century, the decade that transformed sports, the rise of a pop ...

With major wars raging in Europe and the Middle East and with the U.S. Veterans Day upon us, perhaps it is time to re-engage with the magnum opus of war poetry, Homer's "The Iliad." A new ...