Paris, the young prince of the city, fell in love with Helen, the wife of Menelaus, one of the Greek kings, and smuggled her to Troy. Menelaus’ brother Agamemnon then declared war on Troy and gathered ...

Ajax was a famous Hellenic warrior from Homer’s Iliad and a symbol of intense strength in the Trojan war. In 2018, when the boat was officially contracted with BAE Systems for £1.5 billion (US$1.9 ...

Diomedes and Athena. Credit: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Ajax the Great and Ajax the Lesser. Two legendary Greek heroes share the name of Ajax in the ...

In the Iliad, Homer calls Chiron the "wisest and justest of all the centaurs.". Fated to be overthrown by one of his children, Cronus, the godhead of the Titans, devoured them all upon their birth ...

Agamemnon’s and Menelaus’ Greek cities. The leader of the Greek forces in the Trojan War was Agamemnon.He is most famous as the king of Mycenae, although the Iliad actually suggests that his main city ...

Christian and Gainer as Ajax and Tecmessa. Courtesy | Kyle Johns As anguished cries resound off-set, a capsule turns around and reveals the bloody and despairing Ajax, sitting among dismembered bodies ...

Greek archaeologists say they have unearthed the remains of a 13th Century BC palace linked to the legendary warrior-king Ajax. In Homer's classic tale The Iliad the Achaean hero Ajax the Great fought ...

Drawn and written geoglyphs shape the sanctuary and provide evidence of the Iliad. The area has not been subjected to archaeological excavations, and the conclusions are based on landscape archaeology ...

Salamis has been a place of interest to historians for other reasons too, as it is mentioned in Homer's "Iliad" as the home of the Trojan War hero Ajax.

In "The Iliad," Ajax fights in the Trojan War alongside his cousin, Achilles. Ajax later took his own life with the sword of the fallen Trojan prince, Hector, and so died "unconquered." ...