Mediterranean fatalism
"What are you gonna do?" A rhetorical question from The Sopranos
Odyssey Lofts
Condos with a Homeric touch
"Uber-responsible" types
Hector and Aeneas and Rick from Casablanca
Homer's world
Homeric geography in what looks like a snowglobe
Homer in Art
News of an art exhibition: The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris Princeton Un...
Hillary Clinton and kleos
I'm teaching the Iliad and the Odyssey in a four-week summer session for undergraduates: two hours of teaching in the morning, five days a...
Robert Fagles, 1933-2008
Links to three obituaries
Aristeia
The campus rampage and the Iliad
SparkNotes and Homer
They don't make life easier
Jonathan Shay wins MacArthur grant
Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay has been awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation grant. Dr. Shay works with Vietnam veterans who suffer from post...
Petraeus
A seer?
Oikos
Key word in Homer and yogurt
Homer then and now
The undoing of character, in the Iliad and Iraq
Xenía in D.C.
A foiled robbery in D.C. and Homeric hospitality
Lombardo's Homer wins
audiobook prize
Paris and Niles Crane
In Iliad 13, the Trojan prince Hector, who has been leading an assault on the Greek ships, finds his brother Paris off to the side of battl...
Homer's Rumsfeld
Agamemnon and Rumsfeld
"[I]n my own hand, in my own notebook"
Robert Fitzgerald on translating Homer
Homeric blindness in "colledge"
The difference between college and colledge
Words from Robert Fitzgerald
From the Postscript to his translation of the Odyssey
Lotusland
The meaning of the word.
Breakfast with Pandora
Iliad passage in two translations
Stanley Lombardo reads Homer
Link to a review of the Iliad and Odyssey on CDs
Bath, bed, home
Excerpt from an essay on shaving, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and much else
Homer rules
Homer in top 10 library books
Under Odysseus
excerpt from a Trojan War blog
Stanley Lombardo interview
3009 and 2601 students: You can find the text of an interview with Stanley Lombardo here . How did this interview come about? Stanley Lom...
Paris, pretty-boy
“Paris, you desperate, womanizing pretty boy!” What is Hector really saying when he rebukes his brother in Iliad 3? I got curious enough th...
Translators at work and play
Here’s the Phaeacian princess Nausicaa in Odyssey 6 asking her father for the wagon so that she can go down to the river and do the laundry...
Troy
You can find Daniel Mendelsohn's astute essay on the movie here .