Helen was "the most beautiful girl in the world," the narrator informs us (we have to take it on faith). The 10-year battle fought over her was "the most famous war in history," he goes on.

The first woman to appear prominently in the Iliad is, fitly enough, Helen herself, the source of all the woes of Troy. To the apple of discord, the strife of the three goddesses, ...

"An Iliad" is not merely a reading of Homer’s poem. This is a modern man telling the story of the Trojan War, the 10-year battle between the Greeks, who want to get Helen back, and the soldiers ...

But look beyond a scantily clad Brad Pitt and you’ll see that the movie is based on Homer’s “The Iliad,” one of the most famous books in the history of literature (to be exact, it’s a ...

No longer is Helen cast as a figure of blame; “she was not a cause or a cloud, only a name / for a local wonder”. The majority of responses to Helen since the Iliad nonetheless have centred on the ...

Samuel Butler’s prose Iliad (1898) still gains praise, and T.E. Lawrence’s Iliad (1932) has its following, while the couplets of Edgar Alfred Tibbetts (1907) and hexameters of George Ernle ...

“There are no binding oaths between men and lions,” snarled Dennis O’Hare, the sole actor in Homer’s Coat’s Production of “An Iliad.” The echo of Achilles’ growl resonated from the ...