Anybody who writes, directs, or consumes any form of entertainment owes a debt of gratitude to Homer. Had the ancient poet not written two of the best—and earliest—epic dramas in Western history, the Iliad and the Odyssey, who knows where our culture ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many screenings as he can, Liam is always watching new movies and ...

Homer is often called the—or at least a—“father of Western civilization.” This is not a new idea. To take a prominent example, already before the end of the first century A.D., the Roman rhetorician Quintilian had these laudatory words for Homer in ...

Throughout the centuries, Homer's works, particularly The Odyssey, inspired artists and influenced the subject matter of their paintings.

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile, half-bookworm, he is both a TV/Movie List Writer for ...

Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona recovered a papyrus fragment bearing lines from Homer’s Iliad directly from the body of a Roman-era mummy during excavations at the ancient Egyptian site of Oxyrhynchus.