It's altogether fitting that Microsoft, the corporate equivalent of a bull in the china shop, would market a new text-messaging product by trashing one of the canonical works of Western civilization.

New Netflix series Troy: Fall of a City, co-produced with the BBC, is most obviously based on Homer's account of the Trojan War in the Iliad, but there are a number of other historical inspirations ...

Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life. By Natalie Haynes Natalie Haynes is the author, most recently, of the novel “Stone Blind,” about Medusa, ...