In the Iliad, Homer leaves Helen of Troy’s appearance undefined, inviting readers to imagine her beauty for themselves.

Sausages and sneezes both have small but significant parts to play in Homer’s Odyssey. Sausages (or blood-puddings, or ‘paunches full of blood and fat’ as more literal translators call them) figure ...

OTHER reviews of T. E. Shaw’s brilliantly vivid translation of Homer’s Odyssey into English prose will have already appeared, and people will be familiar not only with the author’s remarkable life but ...

II. SO far as I can follow Mr. Gladstone's investigations, it appears to me that Homer has exactly fulfilled all the conditions mentioned in the previous article. As many references are made to ...