Although there are more spectacular ancient sites on Turkey’s Aegean coast, including the magnificent library at Ephesus and ...

Did the Greeks really use chariots how Homer describes in his account of the Trojan War, or did Homer just misrepresent ...

Yet the concept of the lone genius hasn't lost its appeal, said Peter Conrad in The Observer: just look at the veneration ...

I brought some of my team members from the Amsterdam Troy Project to sit and react to the 2004 epic Troy with me! Even though we can't get to Troy this year to carry out our excavations, we can still ...

It should be recalled, too, that although the “Iliad” ends before the fall of Troy, Menelaus is said by later Greek sources to have forgiven Helen and to have lived in happy, monogamous ...

Helen of Troy, 1993 Maria Zoccola. Scribner, $18 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-66804-633-3 ...

The 24-book epic, which historians believed was composed around 750 B.C., recounts the Trojan War’s saga, detailing legends like Helen of Troy, the Trojan Horse, and the fury of Achilles, with ...

Homer’s Helen understands her role in The Iliad, and the war, and extrapolates that to an identity that extends into eternity. She is to be reviled, then and now, by Menelaus and Marlowe.

to Troy across the wide back of the sea, on that same journey when he brought back Helen, the daughter of the mightiest of fathers. Book 6 is one of the more poignant books of the poem.