The poetry itself sizzles on the page." — New York Journal of Books  

On May 13, Grace Cathedral and the International Readers of Homer present a 10-hour reading of The Iliad, in classicist Caroline Alexander's translation, called a new gold standard by New Criterion. Alexander is also the author of two New York Times bestsellers, The Endurance, a riveting account of Shackleton's famed Antarctic expedition, and The Bounty, the true story of the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh.    

With her virtuoso translation of The Iliad, Alexander brings to life Homer's timeless epic of the Trojan War. As told by Homer, this ancient tale of a particular Bronze Age conflict becomes a sublime and sweeping evocation of the destruction of war throughout the ages.  

Join Malcolm Clemens Young for a conversation with Alexander about the relevance of the story of The Iliad to us today and the enduring power of its poetry. 

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About the Guest 

Caroline Alexander is the author of the international bestsellers The Endurance and The Bounty and, more recently, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of the Trojan War. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, where she was a contributing writer, and in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and Outside, among other publications. Alexander received her doctorate in classics from Columbia University and was the founder of the Department of Classics at the University of Malawi in East Africa.  

About the Moderator  

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young is the dean of Grace Cathedral. He is the author of The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau and The Invisible Hand in Wilderness: Economics, Ecology, and God, and is a regular contributor on religion to the Huffington Post and San Francisco Examiner.     

About The Forum   

The Forum is a series of stimulating conversations about faith and ethics in relation to the important issues of our day. We invite inspiring and illustrious people to sit down for a real conversation with the Forum's host and with you. Our guests range from artists, inventors and philosophers to pop culturists and elected officials, but the point of The Forum is singular: civil, sophisticated discourse that engages minds and hearts to think in new ways about the world. Gracecathedral.org/the-forum.