Since antiquity, scholars have made many attempts to chart Odysseus’ harrowing decade-long journey home as described by Homer ...

Michael Cosmopoulos receives the 2026 PROSE Award in classics for “The World of Homer,” a study of the origins and context of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

In the Iliad, did Homer really describe the type of warfare common to the Mycenaean Era? Or was he describing the warfare of his own day?

Almost 3,000 years ago, the Greek poet Homer composed more than 15,000 lines of dactylic hexameter about the Trojan War. An epic poem about the possibly true, possibly legendary Greek siege of the ...

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts of the Iliad by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson. Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow ...