The complete online text of The Iliad by Homer.

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....

TEXIAN ILIAD A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 Stephen L. Hardin University of Texas Press, Austin, 1996. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. xix+ 321 pp. $15.95 paper. The seige and storming of the Alamo, the death...

IT'S ALWAYS a pretty safe bet to ask Elliot Richardson about a current event. He has surely thought about it -- more likely has been in charge of the whole subject at some point. The other day, I asked the former attorney general...

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...