Homer’s The Odyssey isn’t just an ancient story—it’s the blueprint for Western literature. Written in the 8th century BCE and set in a mythic version of Greece, this epic poem weaves ...

From the very beginning, Hollywood has been fascinated with ancient cultures ... Often, films set in antiquity are epics, which lend them a power and a gravitas that matches the weightiness ...

But the ancient epics of the cultures they engendered, including the Hindu Rigveda and Homer’s Iliad, suggest that they glorified battle and expanded through colonization. Archaeological ...