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

Is the tale of the Trojan War just a myth or was it a real historical fact? Was there really a city called Troy? Did Homer base his poems on true events, the details of which had been passed down ...

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

Who hasn't heard of the Trojan War, right? Total War ... but surely, we all know Troy. Do we know its intricacies, however? Mythical though they largely may be? The Pillars of Civilization ...

The story of the Trojan Horse is quite well-known, and the very first mention of it was in Homer’s Odyssey. It describes how the ancient Greeks infiltrated the city of Troy by concealing ...

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

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee.

The inhabitants of this city believed that they lived on the site of ancient Troy; Xerxes and Alexander the Great visited the place that they might see the scene of the action of the Trojan war.

a Trojan prince. Helen is the wife of Menelaus - King of Sparta - and he musters an army led by his brother Agamemnon to sail to Troy to take Helen back. The war lasts for 10 long years ...

Is the tale of the Trojan War just a myth or was it a real historical fact? Was there really a city called Troy? Did Homer base his poems on true events, the details of which had been passed down ...

Achilles is killed by a flukey arrow to the heel and Odysseus has a plan for a secret weapon to end the war - a wooden horse ... Achilles will be killed at Troy by Paris. Achilles's mother ...