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 ...

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 ...

Listen to Jeffrey Brown interview Caroline Alexander, author of a new translation of “The Iliad ... She received her doctorate in classics from Columbia University and was the founder ...

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 ...

Now, she continues to make what’s old new again with her translation of The Iliad, which she labored ... and shows off her background as a Greek classics scholar (she teaches at the University ...

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 ...