Is there any evidence that the Odyssey is based on real events, or is it just a fictional story invented by Homer?

Did Odysseus really travel all over the Mediterranean, as commonly believed? This article examines the evidence.

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 ...

Mona Simpson (Glenn Close) appears as a hallucination in The Simpsons episode "The Man Who Flew Too Much." Image via Fox There is no shortage of Homer-centered episodes in The Simpsons, classics where ...

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 ...

Homer Simpson has a reputation for being a hopeless idiot, but he’s actually dispensed plenty of surprising wisdom over the years that’s made him The Simpsons’ resident sage. Homer’s limited intellect ...

Arguments over Homeric translation are nothing new. Virtually since the Renaissance, there has been a clear division among translators between modernists and Hellenizers. The first, in essence, follow ...

At a young age, David has always enjoyed exploring fiction. This has been evident in his love of reading, films, and video games. As a result, it made sense to pursue writing as a career. He has ...