Homer's Iliad tells the saga of the city of Troy and the mythical Trojan war that took place between the Greeks and the ...

Every night at bedtime, my mother would read me a story. The books were classic and beloved: runaway bunnies, saying goodnight to the moon, a friendship between a pig and a spider. But one evening, ...

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 ...

Achilles’ heel was not his heel, but his love for another man. Or so Madeline Miller tells it in “The Song of Achilles,” a novel that skillfully retells and embellishes Homer’s tale of the Trojan War, ...

The Achilles of Homer’s The Iliad always seemed a bit of a head case, even by the standards of teenagers who first encounter him in high school lit classes. He had those anger issues, the ones that ...