For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of heroism, gods and the enduring human spirit. While The Iliad plunges us into ...

Is there any evidence that the Odyssey is based on real events, or is it just a fictional story invented by Homer?

Homer's Iliad has a vast cast of characters. Many of these names are less familiar to mainstream audiences than mighty ...

THE ancients had, for the most part, an unquestioning belief in one Homer, who wrote — or at least composed — both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and indeed many minor poems as well, in the same literal ...

Odysseus is a liar. There is no question about it in classical literature, that Homer’s archetypal hero is a fork-ongued liar. Sometimes he lies to save his own skin, other times he uses lies as a ...