The Bronze Age Mycenaeans were an ancient civilization from the Greek mainland known for their impressive architecture, rich ...

The Original ‘Iliad’ 6. 482-497 The original poem is composed in beautifully musical, metrically regular dactylic hexameter, and designed to be performed out loud: It is poetry for the mouth ...

Greek mythology fans and history buffs can go back to where it all started with Emily Wilson’s brand-new translation of Homer’s ’The Iliad,’ the original story of Achilles and the Trojan War.

A new translation of Homer's Iliad has just been published by Emily Wilson, who was the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English. The classicist and author Natalie Haynes talks to her ...

Two of the Island’s own have partnered to offer a one-person show about the timeless toll of war that is sure to set your ...

and it's quite difficult to make it sing in a way that's going to be even a fraction as powerful as the original is. After three millennia, you’d think that the buzz around the Iliad would have ...

In her “Odyssey,” Wilson restricted herself to the same number of lines as the original poem, meaning that some sections came across as somewhat abrupt in English. In her “Iliad,” she has ...

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 ...