Though Homer’s “The Iliad” has become nearly synonymous with elite scholars, bards performed it in public and private, cementing its presence in ancient Greek culture. Passing through oral tradition ...

The Odyssey is a Greek epic poem describing the decade-long peregrinations of one of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War, ...

An intriguing discovery in Egypt revealed an ancient mummy with a papyrus fragment of Homer's Iliad resting on its abdomen.

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 about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The Fight for the Body of Patroclus," illustration from The Iliad for Boys and Girls, Alfred John Church, 1907. Public ...

(Phys.org)—Homer's great masterpieces, The Iliad and The Odyssey, have been dated to around 762 BCE by new research based on the statistical modelling of language evolution. Professor Mark Pagel's ...

Among the books I have returned to again and again throughout my life, seeking solace, wisdom, joy or self-understanding, Homer’s “Iliad” ranks very high. As with all enduring works of art, it yields ...

Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona pulled a papyrus fragment of Homer’s Iliad from the wrappings of a 1,600-year-old mummy buried in the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. The fragment ...