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In a new remount of Charles Newell's critically acclaimed 2011 production, Timothy Edward Kane brings blistering rage to this one-man tour de force.
Emily Wilson's new translation of The Iliad offers fresh insights into an ancient text – she discusses Homer's epic poem with the author Natalie Haynes.
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who assembled a suitably heroic cast featuring the likes of Brad Pitt, Peter O’Toole, Brian ...
Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance walks on stage with his wife Usha at a rally on August 28, 2024 in Erie, Pennsylvania. “'The Iliad' is a poem about how men fight for control of ...
Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...
What makes this show a candidate for the best solo show in Chicago theater history is that the telling comes at great cost to the teller.
Ahead of the publication of a new edition of Homer’s epics—which he has illustrated—the artist also explains why he switches ...
But “The Iliad” is not, of course, a poem purely about the clash of men. As Wilson deftly explains in her introduction to the new volume, the epic does not tell the story of the Trojan War.
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 ...
Homer‘s The Iliad is currently on Usha Vance’s reading list. JD Vance’s wife has frequently been spotted clutching Emily Wilson’s 2023 translation of the classic text while on the ...