Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

One of two great epic poems by Homer to survive from ancient Greece, The Iliad unfolds across two months in the final year of the Trojan War. The Greeks – led by Agamemnon, and with Achilles as ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...

Wilson's translation of a work depicting the Trojan War and believed to date from the eighth century BCE was highly anticipated, given the success of her earlier translation of Homer's "The Odyssey." ...

In a new remount of Charles Newell's critically acclaimed 2011 production, Timothy Edward Kane brings blistering rage to this ...

Source of Information: Principally the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems by blind Homer, ... Cinema: THE TROJAN WAR; Cinema: THE TROJAN WAR. 3 minute read. TIME. January 30, 1956 12:00 AM GMT-5.

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Juan de la Corte’s The Fire of Troy, found in the collection ...

This summer marks the fourth time Court Theatre has mounted Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's “An Iliad.” Based on Robert ...