Erasmus quoted the Iliad in a time of widening war: Men get their fill of sleep and love, of beautiful singing and carefree dance, but they never get enough of war. Men get their fill of sleep and ...

A Bristol student is attempting to create a "visual translation in embroidery" of all 24 books of Homer's celebrated poem, the Iliad. The conceptual artist said the Iliad was "close to her heart".

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

A new translation of the Iliad of Homer is cause for general celebration, especially when the translator is Emily Wilson of the University of Pennsylvania. Having turned her hand to translations of ...

Pop quiz: Which is greater? (a) The number of Republican presidential candidates or (b) the number of new English translations of Homer’s Iliad published in the last decade. If you answered (a), you’d ...

Imagine your favorite, most passionate English teacher from high school. The one who loved the books he was teaching so much that he would jump on his desk with excitement and bellow his favorite ...

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Student Silvie Kilgallon said the Iliad has always been "close to her heart" A Bristol student is attempting to create a "visual translation in embroidery" of all 24 books of Homer's celebrated poem, ...

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