triggered by the Trojan prince Paris's abduction of the Greek beauty Helen, “the face that launched a thousand ships”. However, the Iliad is hardly a romance. The abduction scene is only ...

Near the end of poet Maria Zoccola's "Helen of Troy, 1993," the book's titular protagonist addresses the "gods of difficult ...

For example, in The Iliad, Helen and Achilles use the same derogatory Greek phrase – Achilles against Agamemnon, Helen against herself. Others often translate Achilles’ words as variations of ...

Iowa City's Riverside Theatre is entering the final week of performances for their run of The Cure at Troy, a play featuring ...

Artificial intelligence bulls in Europe are dusting off a 160-year-old economic theory to explain why the boom in the ...

Soldiers are different. They are servants of the state. In well-governed countries, they are bound by discipline, the rule of ...

The question of Helen’s involvement in such a significant conflict clearly poses difficult questions—and has done so ever since the age of Homer. In the Iliad, the cause of the war is ambiguous. Homer ...

The Iliad has a vast cast of characters ... In the story, the Greek army besieges Troy after the abduction of the Spartan queen, Helen, by the Trojan prince, Paris. Much of the story follows Achilles, ...

Various heroes adorn the walls of the elegant entertaining space, including Helen, Paris and Cassandra ... archaeologists revealed a rare mosaic depicting a scene from Homer's epic, The Iliad. And in ...