Homer (c. 8th–7th century BC) is one of the most renowned poets of ancient Greece and is traditionally credited with composing two of the most significant epic poems in Western literature: The Iliad ...

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

Near the end of poet Maria Zoccola's "Helen of Troy, 1993," the book's titular protagonist addresses the "gods of difficult ...

Christopher Nolan will film scenes for The Odyssey on the Sicilian island where Homer’s Greek hero Odysseus came ashore.

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

The University of Exeter put a trigger warning on two classic pieces of ancient Greek literature, Homer’s “The Iliad” and ...

Did the Trojan War really happen? Scholars continue to debate this, but establishing the true chronology of the legend might be the solution.

A university in England has put over 200 trigger warnings on Shakespeare works and adaptations for things such as the ...

Nights' resident classics educator and enthusiast Ben Jackson unpacks the epic homecoming story from antiquity in light of ...

An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets – from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara – and how they can teach us to better understand the world around us.

The Odyssey is an ancient epic poem traditionally attributed to the Greek poet Homer. The monumental epic is divided into 24 books. The majority of the epic unfolds around the Aegean Sea before ...