Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in Modern Greek.
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 Odyssey of Homer is a Greek epic poem that tells of the return journey of Odysseus to the island of Ithaca from the war at Troy, which Homer addressed in The Iliad. In the Greek tradition, the war ...
Greek Reporter: Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek
Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek
It's the epic poem that's regarded as the cornerstone of Western literature - and it turns out Homer's Iliad was a must-read for the afterlife, too.
Archaeologists excavating at Egypt’s Al-Bahnasa site discovered a papyrus containing an excerpt of Homer’s epic Iliad—inside a mummy. While the reason this particular text went to the afterlife with ...
Homer's Iliad tells the saga of the city of Troy and the mythical Trojan war that took place between the Greeks and the Trojans ...
As a classicist, I tend to be sceptical about modern adaptations of Homer’s epic poem, but Sydney Theatre Company’s recent production of ‘An Iliad’ demonstrates both the pertinence and the power of ...
EurekAlert!: First Homer encyclopedia brings epic poetry and ancient Greece to life