That’s the first line of Homer’s “The Iliad” in the new translation by Stephen Mitchell, a poet and one of the preeminent translators and interpreters of ancient and modern classics.

An Iliad The plaintive question "Do you see?," repeated in the course of "An Iliad," raises this sleek distillation of Homer's epic ... If we did, we’d have wasted our time on the first line, ...

The Iliad of Homer Translated by Richmond Lattimore (University of Chicago Press, 599 pp., ... Verity’s first line is identical with Lattimore’s, so he too scores one stress hexameter.

Before ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey,’ Homer’s very first work—if Homer actually existed—is named ‘Margites,’ after its main character who was nothing short of a bumbling idiot.

Lattimore is alert to Homer’s effects, particularly his play with consonant sounds. His “drives downward” in line 2 nicely gets the “d” and “n” sounds in the Greek eisi pedo_n d_e ...

A new translation of Homer's Iliad has just been published by Emily Wilson, who was the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English. The classicist and author Natalie Haynes talks to her ...