“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, ...

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.

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.

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 brought some of my team members from the Amsterdam Troy Project to sit and react to the 2004 epic Troy with me! Even though we can't get to Troy this year to carry out our excavations, we can still ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

The deaths of Patroclus and Hector may seem noble to us. But the quests for glory, personal and national, that occasioned them also resulted in countless other deaths of people not named by the Poet.