"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 ...

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 ...

Homer’s “poem of force” in a freshly potent version. I’m not so good with observances, and when Veterans’ Day came round last month, I felt only the most fleeting sort of gratitude or even ...