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Homer is the name that has come down through the centuries as the author of the two earliest surviving poetic works of ancient Greece, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Yet, nothing is securely known about the authorship of these poems. Such was the reverence w...

Homer is the name that has come down through the centuries as the author of the two earliest surviving poetic works of ancient Greece, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Yet nothing is securely known about the authorship of these poems. Such was the reverence wi...

Homer, the major figure in ancient Greek literature, has been universally acclaimed as the greatest poet of classical antiquity. The Iliad and the Odyssey, two long epic poems surviving in a surprisingly large number of manuscripts, are ascribed to him....

Iliad - Homer - 750 B.c. The cover of a recent translation of the Iliad (published by Hackett in 1997) features a black-and-white photograph of the 1944 D-Day landing at Normandy, as seen from the point of view of a soldier about to jump from the open...

Iliad by Homer The Greek poet Homer is credited with composing the Iliad, although the authorship of the epic remains uncertain. It is believed that Homer probably lived in the eighth century B.C. While scholars have made educated guesses about aspects...

iRex iLiad (version 2). The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display. if (window.showTocToggle) { var...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a rare 2,700-year-old piece of fabric inside a copper urn from a burial they speculated imitated the elaborate cremation of soldiers described in Homer's "Iliad."The yellowed, brittle material was found in the urn during excavation in the southern town of...

Each New Year brings with it the obligatory slate of resolutions. And like some college-level sociological experiment, each New Year also brings with it a slate of stories about what famous people have resolved to either quit—smoking, say—or begin—usually something kind of boring, like marathon...

Once upon a time, scientists envisioned electronic books that would look and feel like the traditional varieties, but could hold hundreds of titles, update often and do other tricks. Development on the concept began in the 1970s when Nick Sheridan, an inventor at Xerox's Palo...

With the return of a long-sought masterpiece of antiquity, Italy on Friday trumpeted one of the successes of its campaign to recover what it says are looted treasures from museums and collectors around the world.The 2,500-year-old vase by Greek artist Euphronius, which Italy regained after...

In the following excerpt from his study of the Iliad, Frazer investigates the work's narrative structure and parallelism, the character of Achilles, pro-Achaean bias, representation of the Olympian gods, and use of simile.

In the following essay, Morrison discusses narrative misdirection brought about by prophesies and threats in the Iliad.

In the following excerpt, Taplin examines broad ethical issues in the Iliad and the epic's narrative form, focusing specifically on temporality, and the guilt of Helen and Paris.

The Iliad is not about the Trojan War; that war lasted ten years and the central actions of the poem occupy only a few weeks. War brutalizes men and women, wounds their bodies and minds, enslaves and kills them. This is Homer's message as he focuses on one hero, Achilleus, to demonstrate wrath's destruction of self and others.

Examines the classical roles of heroes in the Iliad, by Homer, focusing on Agamemnon, Achillies and Hector. Describes the heroic code and relates it to each character.

This essay discusses the character of Achilles in The Illiad, in both a negative and positive light, ultimately venerating the character.