Certain elements of the poem have led scholars to believe that it is the product of a centuries-long oral tradition, in which the original story of the fall ... were memorializing scenes from The ...

Listen to Jeffrey Brown interview Caroline Alexander, author of a new translation of “The Iliad.” Many readers think of “The Iliad” as a daunting text. But Caroline Alexander, whose new ...

Greek mythology fans and history buffs can go back to where it all started with Emily Wilson’s brand-new translation of Homer’s ’The Iliad,’ the original story of Achilles and the Trojan War.

We know very little about The Iliad’s emergence ... building blocks of the original Greek, on the grounds they are repetitive. This, I believe, is wrong: epithets qualify the surrounding ...