A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

From Homer’s epic about the gods-influenced Trojan War to Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad - the stories remain just as read ...

Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book looks at stories circulating between the sixth and fourth centuries BC about his birth, name and origin, blindness and his relationship to ...

Returning to Greece with the historical drama 'The Return' proved an emotional affair for Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes and ...

At first glance, the 1984 miners’ strike – in which Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government was put to the test by ...

By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...

Usha, a member of a “slow pace” book club, had begun reading Homer’s Iliad after her seven-year-old son developed an interest ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

“I kind of panicked for a half-second. The wind kind of scared me. But don’t care if it was an inside-the-parker, a homer is a homer.” With the Dodgers dominating the Mets in Game 3 of the ...

CLEVELAND — With the Yankees down 3-1 in Game 3 of the ALCS and baseball’s best closer looking for a four-out save, Aaron Judge launched a two-run homer off ... get into an epic battle ...

as recounted in Homer’s foundational epic poem. And yet playwright Tim Price’s decision to use The Odyssey as a framework for articulating the plight of the Welsh miners in this, the 40th ...