The real story of Odysseus is essential to understanding what's at stake in 'The Return.' ...

Ah, the myth that launched a thousand ships. The apple thrown into the middle of a greek banquet would ruin lives and lay ...

Greeks were on the Indian subcontinent quite some time prior to the composition of the the great Indian epic poem, the ...

Goodkin, who holds a B.A. in Classics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, gave an informal presentation to “Tales of ...

In the Iliad there are effectively only three kinds of women described, chaste wives, sexually immoral women such as Helen, and third eye candy women who exist only to be beautiful and desired.

Professor Valentino Nizzo, Etruscologist from the University of Naples, l'Orientale, identified a precious Etruscan mirror ...

The Iliad is one of the greatest poems ever written. It is the story of the war waged by the Achaean princes against Troy for the purpose of recovering Helen, wife of Menelaus, whom Paris ...

However, the “Iliad” describes Achilles as blond (xanthos) just like Menelaus. Other blond characters in the Homeric poems are Peleus, Meleager, Agamede, and Rhadamanthys. Euripides also describes ...

One of Australia’s literary icons unveils her latest work about family, masculinity and the influential role of sport in the lives of young people. In Helen Garner’s much-anticipated book The Season ...

From picture books to bell hooks, some reading inspiration for every age.

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 ...

Andrew Tarlow is known for Brooklyn spots with low lighting, tattooed servers, and hunks of meat. Now, across the East River for the first time, he shifts the vibe toward stately elegance.