"The Iliad" is one of the foundational works of Western literature and thought. It’s an old story that continues to resonate in our time and has been given new life in a translation by distinguished ...

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” ...

Almost 3,000 years ago, the Greek poet Homer composed more than 15,000 lines of dactylic hexameter about the Trojan War. An epic poem about the possibly true, possibly legendary Greek siege of the ...

Helen Ford was born Helen Isabel Barnett in Troy on June 6, 1894. Helen’s father was a manufacturer in Troy, and she was considered a musical prodigy as a child. She studied voice and piano at a ...

War, Homer teaches us, is the engine of epic: a flow of blood and bone, indifferent to gender, spreading its agony and valor communally, like a feast or a pandemic. War implores us to suspend ...