In 2017, Emily Wilson made history when she became the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English. Her interpretation Homer's classic breathes new life into the three-millennium-old poem, and ...

Homer, whose epic poems rank with King David’s psalms among the longest-running items in heavy rotation on Western civilization’s hit parade, keeps making news 2,600-plus years after his initial fame.

When the world is too much for us, which is an awful lot of the time and especially when we’re stuck in traffic, audiobooks are a great diversion. It surprises me how few people have discovered this.

A Universal studio chief recently made headlines by claiming that Homer, the legendary originator of Classical Greek literature, would likely have been proud of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.

Since I completed my translation of the Odyssey, which is the first published version of Homer’s epic in English translated by a woman, readers have often assumed that I must sympathize above all with ...