The question of Helen’s involvement in the Trojan War clearly poses difficult questions—and has done so ever since the age of ...

Homer's Iliad has a vast cast of characters. Many of these names are less familiar to mainstream audiences than mighty ...

Helen of Troy was written in. As her story passed down the generations it held up a mirror to the prejudices of society and to some of its truths. Helen in the Iliad declares, ‘on us has been ...

Homers Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with the ...

Hecuba, Queen of Troy, is to become a slave, as are the other women. Helen of Troy, who was the cause of this fierce battle, must now face her punishment for running away from her husband.

The Trojan War and its events provide the background for two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey ... determined to retrieve Helen from Troy. For many years the Greeks camped outside the walls ...

The cause of war is Helen’s elopement ... about by Homer in The Iliad) and continuing with the creation of the Trojan horse by Odysseus, the means by which Troy is vanquished and Helen returned ...

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...

Based loosely on Homers ancient Greek epic poem 'Iliad', Troy: Fall of a City tells the story of the 10 year siege of the ancient city of Troy by the Greeks, after Paris, the young prince of Troy ...

The Trojan War and its events provide the background for two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey ... determined to retrieve Helen from Troy. For many years the Greeks camped outside the walls ...