This kind of flag-waving is no longer fashionable, or even comfortable, in an art world striving to be global and in a country where arguments over what counts as “real America” become nastier by the ...

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.

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Homer is often called the—or at least a—“father of Western civilization.” This is not a new idea. To take a prominent example, already before the end of the first century A.D., the Roman rhetorician ...

Spoilers ahead for The OA Season 2. The OA is really taking Homer's name literally, because now, he's had to embark on a long Odyssey to find his way back to Prairie. When the show picks up, we learn ...

At a young age, David has always enjoyed exploring fiction. This has been evident in his love of reading, films, and video games. As a result, it made sense to pursue writing as a career. He has ...

Ask who wrote the Iliad or the Odyssey, and anyone with a literary mind (or some good pub trivia experience) will no doubt tell you that they were the works of Homer. Homer, they might even be able to ...

For many Indian readers, Homer may be a half-remembered name from school history or a chapter on Greek civilisation. But here's the strange part. The poet who supposedly gave the world The Iliad and ...

The Western tradition has never been more appealingly portrayed than in Rembrandt’s 1653 painting “Aristotle with a Bust of Homer.” Whether you stand in front of it at the Metropolitan Museum or look ...