Rereading the epic in January, I found that the quarrelsome and dysfunctional principals had become an oddly familiar cast of ...

You'd be wrong to think the ancient Greek gods bled red like you and me, as ichor was the substance that defined their ...

The words of the ancient Greek author Homer have echoed across the centuries. His magnum opus, the Iliad, which recounts the ...

To the editor: It surprises me that Jesse Browner doesn’t consider President Trump as Paris in his “Iliad” analogy (“If Trump were one of the rogues from Homer’s ‘Iliad,’ which would ...

He poured the drink, going from right to left, for all the other gods, drawing off sweet nectar from the mixing bowl.” It doesn’t take long for the deities to soon begin laughing “irrepressibly” while ...

There is a scene on Homer’s Iliad that I find insightful and funny at the same time. The battle for Troy has begun (in the ...

Principals of the Trojan War, from left: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Ulysses, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon. The illustration is by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein from an 1842 book ...