Some ancient historians believed Homer himself witnessed the events of the Trojan War. Could this correlate with Homer's Iliad?

Homer, obviously: that is what we’ve been told since the late 6th century BCE, when ancient Greeks started crediting the Odyssey to a blind bard from the rocky isle of Chios. But this “Homer” appeared ...

In a critically acclaimed new translation of The Iliad, CU Boulder classics Professor Laurialan Reitzammer sees the enduring relevance of Homer So, it’s no little feat that The Iliad and The ...

I read Homer in High School. And slowly, in my college classes in ancient, medieval, and modern Greek history, I realized Homer’s epic poems were at the very core of Hellenic civilization. The more I ...

The Lotus-eaters were a group of people, who, according to the Ancient Greek writer Homer, lived on a diet of lotus flowers. The flower is thought to have been an aquatic plant that grew in marshes ...