THE Homeridae — “Sons of Homer” — a family guild of Ionian bards based on Chios, enlarged their ancestor’s first short draft of the Iliad to twenty-four books and became collectively known as “ Homer.

Barbara Weiden Boyd is a big fan of Ovid, the Latin poet who died just about two thousand years ago. Apart from being a great humorist, she said, Ovid should be applauded for his brilliant re-working ...

The epic poems of Homer inspired the Greeks for millennia. The first epic, the Iliad, tells the story of the Trojan War, according to which, about hundreds of Achaean / Greek ships from all over ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Lupita Nyong'o has sparked controversy after publicly criticising the ancient Greek poet Homer during promotional interviews ...

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 ...