Minoan art featured distinctive depictions of female ... would be the basis for the Greek in which the poet Homer would write his two masterpieces.
A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.
His poems start at home, as all good poems do; as Homer's did ... And we are back in poetry as merely one more art of having something to say, sound or unsound. Probably better if sound, because ...
By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...
The blind bard Homer (a poet born around around 850BC ... covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories ...
French poet, playwright and artist Jean Cocteau tells us to ... a fantastic distillation of major works by poets ranging from Homer and Sappho to Donne and Milton, Plath and Angelou.
On Friday, Nov. 8 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts poet, scholar, and Paris Review poetry editor Srikanth Reddy. This ...
This bust of the "blind" poet Homer is a Roman copy (2nd Century AD) of a Hellenistic original of the 2nd Century BC And then there is the reality, which consists of the art and artefacts that ...
This edition with commentary enables readers at all levels to interpret the poetry with heightened pleasure and understanding ... which in the future will not be missing from any desk on which Homer ...
The choice we face is ultimately a call to embody our highest virtues and, armed with the legacy of those who came before us, to fight.
Alice Oswald’s Nobody (2019) drew on her beloved Homer; Anne Carson ... stripped of commercial concerns, poetry is at its best when it pursues the artist’s vision as idiosyncratically ...