‘Celebrity” and “translator” are not words that occur often in conjunction. But together they aptly describe Emily Wilson, whose new translation of Homer’s epic poem “The Iliad” is one of the most ...

“The Iliad” begins with the word “mēnin,” or the wrath of gods, which Emily Wilson renders in her new translation as “cataclysmic wrath.” This wrath kindled the Trojan War, caused innumerable deaths, ...

War, Homer teaches us, is the engine of epic: a flow of blood and bone, indifferent to gender, spreading its agony and valor communally, like a feast or a pandemic. War implores us to suspend ...

Among the books I have returned to again and again throughout my life, seeking solace, wisdom, joy or self-understanding, Homer’s “Iliad” ranks very high. As with all enduring works of art, it yields ...

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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” ...

My personal history reviewing “An Iliad,” the contemporary vernacular take on the Homeric epic penned by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, has become my reminder of the ubiquitousness of war and human ...

"The Iliad" is one of the foundational works of Western literature and thought. It’s an old story that continues to resonate in our time and has been given new life in a translation by distinguished ...