Emily Wilson's new translation of The Iliad offers fresh insights into an ancient text – she discusses Homer's epic poem with the author Natalie Haynes.

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.

If Trump were one of the rogues from Homer’s ‘Iliad,’ which would he be? Principals of the Trojan War, from left: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Ulysses, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon.

When Patroclus died, I remember saying, “But the gods are going to bring him back to life, ... Since then, I have returned to the Iliad many times, and it never disappoints.

Emily Wilson on 5 crucial decisions she made in her ‘Iliad’ translation. ... who is prostrate with grief for his dead friend, Patroclus. Achilles is still dragging the corpse of Patroclus’s ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. — In “An Iliad,” which received both an Obie and Lucille Lortel Award for its 2012 off-Broadway production, playwrights Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare offer a compressed ...

“The Iliad” begins with the word “mēnin,” or the wrath of gods, which Emily Wilson renders in her new translation as “cataclysmic wrath.” ... During Patroclus’s funeral, ...

The “Iliad,” composed around the eighth or seventh century B.C. by one or more poets we call Homer, is a poem of contradictions. ... We see Patroclus, Achilles’ closest companion, ...

This summer marks the fourth time Court Theatre has mounted Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's “An Iliad.” Based on Robert Fagles' translation of Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War, ...

Emily Wilson's new translation of The Iliad offers fresh insights into an ancient text – she discusses Homer's epic poem with the author Natalie Haynes. The Iliad: How modern readers get this ...

I reread the “Iliad” most recently in January, not long after the change of administration in Washington. What I found at this particular juncture in American politics was that the principals ...