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 ...

Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later ...

Arguments over Homeric translation are nothing new. Virtually since the Renaissance, there has been a clear division among translators between modernists and Hellenizers. The first, in essence, follow ...

“The Odyssey” by Homer; translation, introduction and notes by Barry B. Powell (Oxford University Press, 488 pages, $16.95, paperback) The “Odyssey” may be the greatest travel story ever told. For 10 ...

Ancient Greeks viewed dreams as divine messages, omens or natural phenomena, with interpretations from Homer, Plato, Aristotle and others.

LOS ANGELES - University of Southern California classics professor Brandon Bourgeois has translated Homer’s Greek classic, "The Iliad," for students in the 21st century. Bourgeois rapped the epic poem ...