Homer
HOMEWARD BOUND
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY!
PAGING PHIL DUNPHY
Sitcom audiences, more often than not, are still being encouraged to laugh at dads’ parenting missteps and mistakes.
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KLEOS
The dismissiveness and the laughter are on-brand for the attorney general and the administration he serves.
Lost Masterpieces
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.
LONG LINE
What’s behind the epic rush to put Homer’s ancient text into new modern editions?
Durable
The author of The Iliad and The Odyssey was no single blind bard but an unknown host of tale tellers who each added a little or a lot to the sagas that even today define what stories are.
Literature
How can the Iliad be performed on stage by one person? Denis O’Hare does it in 100 minutes. He speaks to Janice Kaplan.