Woven and Severed
/For millennia, the mighty tales in the epics of Homer have challenged and enthralled the world; a thought-provoking new book seeks to understand why.
Read MoreBook Review: Barry Powell's Iliad
/A life-long love of the Classics is distilled into a new translation of Homer's Iliad
Read MoreBook Review: The Iliad
/Homer's Iliad gets a new and unconventional translation into sometimes very familiar language
Read MoreDownright Rude: Reading Catullus
/The raw sexuality of the Catullus' love poems keeps them alive even today, and the things he implied about Julius Caesar STILL can't be repeated in polite conversation - how do we deal with this young man who's always making us feel just a bit uncomfortable?
Read MoreBook Review: The Iliad
/A new translation raises old questions about the greatest epic of them all.
Read MoreOut of Sorts
/Books have been with us for thousands of years, and books about books for very nearly that long. The world of books teems with themes, and in the latest massive Oxford Companion, that world receives a bestiary with hopes of being definitive.
Read MoreBeyond the Pillars of Hercules
/In addition to their gods and goddesses, the ancient Greeks worshiped youth and athletic prowess, and their foremost bard was Pindar.
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