As I sheltered from the pale winter sun in the shade of Mycenae’s Lion Gate, I had never felt closer to Homer’s Iliad – and the Greek heroes of the Trojan War. This was where Agamemnon ...

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

Ralph Fiennes didn't just get ripped for The Return, he also delivered one hell of a performance. Directed by Uberto Pasolini ...

Homer's most important contribution to Greek culture was to provide a common set of values that enshrined the Greeks' own ideas about themselves. His poems provided a fixed model of heroism ...

An effort says the Westminster Review, has been made by Mr. Blackie, Professor of Greek in the University ... from which it is evident that the language of Homer lives in a state of purity ...

Mahaffy (1839–1919) is known equally for his work on Greek texts and Egyptian papyri (his edition of ... and examines the written evidence from Homer to Menander, focusing, almost inevitably, on ...

A clay tablet discovered during an archaeological dig may be the oldest written record of Homer's epic tale, the Odyssey, ever found in Greece, the country's culture ministry has said. Found near ...

We meet Homer, famous writer of Ancient Greece, who introduces us to the Olympians - twelve of the most important gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece - and also Ancient Greek beliefs about the ...

They famously fought in the battle of Troy. Homer, an important Greek writer, told stories of the Mycenaean age in his books The Iliad and The Odyssey. After the Mycenaean age ended in about ...