The Iliad and The Odyssey are pillars of our literary and storytelling heritage ― and of our high school English classes. But historian and author of Why Homer Matters Adam Nicholson is questioning ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle: Author and ‘Odyssey’ translator Daniel Mendelsohn to deliver Berlin Family Lectures beginning April 23
Author and ‘Odyssey’ translator Daniel Mendelsohn to deliver Berlin Family Lectures beginning April 23
Belfast Telegraph: ‘My classic read has to be Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. I know that’s two books, but they are a pair’
‘My classic read has to be Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. I know that’s two books, but they are a pair’
Hector and Andromache share one of the most tragic stories in Homer’s Iliad. Credit: Francesco Hayez / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons. The words of the ancient Greek author H ...
THE kinship of Iliad and Odyssey can never be denied. Despite microscopic dissimilarities which have been noted, the dialect, the metre, and, we may add, with reasonable allowance for the difference ...
For hundreds of years, people have been passing down stories of Homer’s two great epics: “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” Naturally, this telling and retelling has led to many translations of the ...
KPFA: KPFA Special – The Odyssey and The Iliad, Why these Epic Verses Still Matter Today
KPFA Special – The Odyssey and The Iliad, Why these Epic Verses Still Matter Today
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. Since the “Iliad” ...