He is a generous host ... Homer even presents him, once, as an oral poet.” He shows kindness to Hector’s father who asks for his son’s body. Yet, despite his nobility and strength ...

Poetry has great power to move the hearts of men and women. It cannot be entirely wrong to wish for one great poet to have ...

A would-be burglar entered an apartment, saw a book on Homer's Iliad, and made himself comfortable to read it—until caught ...

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

which were supposedly composed by the poet Homer around the eighth century B.C. But these are just two examples out of the many works of ancient literature that chronicle the war’s events.

The annual Montblanc Writers Edition pen collection is making its debut, and this year Homer is the focus of attention. The Iliad and the Odyssey, the ancient Greek poems attributed to Homer ...

Criticism, said Mr. Murray, has to a great extent shattered the former conception that the Iliad was written by one man--Homer. Even if the poet had a name, we know nothing of him. It seems more ...