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.

Now she's translated Homers "Iliad" set amid the war itself, Greeks fighting Trojans and one another, the great warrior Achilles battling his enemies and, it seems, at times, himself.

Emily Wilson on 5 crucial decisions she made in her ‘Iliad’ translation. From ‘dog-face’ to ‘death runs fast,’ Wilson explains how she worked to revitalize Homer while remaining true ...

Reading Wilson’s Iliad, one senses something of the chant of Homer’s verse, ... The Wrath of Achilles – Louis Édouard Fournier (1881) Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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 ...

But “The Iliad” is not, of course, a poem purely about the clash of men. As Wilson deftly explains in her introduction to the new volume, the epic does not tell the story of the Trojan War.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When David Morton first read Homer’s epic poem The Iliad at high school, he immediately saw it as a queer love story. “For me it ...

AMNA NAWAZ: Achilles and Hector, Helen of Troy and King Priam, the world of "The Iliad," one of the foundational works of Western literature and thought.