THE ANGER OF ACHILLES: HOMER'S ILIAD (383 pp.)—Translated by Robert Graves—Doubleday ($4.95).What has been overlooked by most classicists as well as by the grammarians of ancient Greece.

When Robert expresses admiration for the poetry of American writer and proto-feminist Laura Riding (Dianna Agron of “Glee,” also a producer), Nancy asks him to invite her to stay with them.

One hundred years ago, Paris held its second Olympic Games. Thanks to the film Chariots of Fire (1981), which dramatised the true story of two determined British sprinters, Eric Liddell and Harold ...