Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona pulled a papyrus fragment of Homer’s Iliad from the wrappings of a 1,600-year ...

"The real novelty is finding a literary papyrus in a funerary context." ...

Homer’s Iliad is usually thought of as the first work of European literature, and many would say, the greatest. It tells part of the saga of the city of Troy and the war that took place there. In fact ...

Anybody who writes, directs, or consumes any form of entertainment owes a debt of gratitude to Homer. Had the ancient poet not written two of the best—and earliest—epic dramas in Western history, the ...

The “Iliad,” a poem about war, death and suffering on the plains of Troy, has taken a back seat in recent decades to the other Homeric epic, the “Odyssey,” in some ways its sequel. Since the “Iliad” ...

Never skip a great movie when it's streaming for free, and one of the most entertaining action epics ever made is just a few ...

Arguments over Homeric translation are nothing new. Virtually since the Renaissance, there has been a clear division among translators between modernists and Hellenizers. The first, in essence, follow ...

The contrast between Daniel Mendelsohn’s review of a new translation of the Iliad and, a few pages later, Peter Schjeldahl’s review of the Metropolitan Museum’s reopened galleries of Islamic art was ...

For the second in our Stories that shaped the world series, Caroline Alexander explores how Homer’s Iliad helped redefine the way we worship – and what the epic poem of ancient Greece can still tell ...

A film starring Jennifer Lopez has led to a rush on first editions of Homer's The Iliad, following a scene in which Lopez's character is given a copy by her younger lover. "The Iliad, first edition" ...

It's altogether fitting that Microsoft, the corporate equivalent of a bull in the china shop, would market a new text-messaging product by trashing one of the canonical works of Western civilization.

A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s ...