The Aetolians were an ancient Greek tribe of hardened hillmen that managed to defeat the mighty army of Alexander the Great.

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

The invention of democracy and the role of judges can be traced back to ancient Greece. It is the subject of Aeschylus’ ...

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 ...

Both ‘The Iliad’ and rap battles encourage us, the listeners, to react, reflect and ultimately select with which speaker to side.

Homer’s Iliad is one of the foundational stories of European civilisation. The Iliad is a long poem – an epic – thought to have first been put down in writing in the eighth century BC ...

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 ...

In Zoccola’s exceptional debut, The Iliad’s Helen of Troy is reimagined as a wistful Tennessee housewife, dissatisfied with her marriage and wasted potential and reliving the glory days of her ...

Helen Shaw reviews a disappointing “Othello,” directed by Kenny Leon and starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, and “The Trojans,” a spirited football-themed Iliad.

Ah, the myth that launched a thousand ships. The apple thrown into the middle of a greek banquet would ruin lives and lay waste to entire kingdoms. We set the stage for Helen and Paris, two lovers ...

With the first presidential debate of the 2024 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden set for Thursday, a critic calls on Homer and psychoanalysis to survive till November and beyond.

In one of numerous encounters between mortals and gods in the Iliad, for example, the messenger goddess Iris found Helen inside the palace “in her room, working at a great web of purple cloth ...