Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who assembled a suitably heroic cast featuring the likes of Brad Pitt, Peter O’Toole, Brian ...

En-pap X and Sukkalgir were slaves and Gal-Sal, their trader. What's more, the oldest written poem that exists from Greece, The Iliad of Homer, starts off with Achilles and Agamemnon arguing over the ...

Several important and beautiful discoveries of Mycenaean gold objects have been made by archaeologists, particularly in royal ...

The award-winning mystery novelist’s new book, “Ecstasy,” is a supernatural feminist take on Euripides’ play “The Bacchae.” ...

But, more than 3,000 years after events described in The Iliad, Helen is to undergo a dramatic historical reappraisal. According to a controversial new book, she was more likely to have been a ...

World had a fascinating, super, soaraway exclusive on recently deceased Portadown loyalist Muriel Gibson. Which meant that ...

This summer marks the fourth time Court Theatre has mounted Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's “An Iliad.” Based on Robert ...

Archaeologists in the UK uncovered a mosaic from the Roman era depicting the famous battle between two protagonists of the ...

The Iliad of Homer, literally translated, with explanatory notes. By Theodore Alois Buckley Bookreader Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share ...

Euripides' Trojan Women was staged as part of a trilogy of plays set in the Trojan War. It included Alexander, which told the story of the return of Paris, exposed at birth, to regain his birthright ...

Euripides, the third of the great Athenian tragedians, wrote the Trojan Women for performance at the City Dionysia in late March/early April 415 BC, where it won second prize. The play was written ...

Stephen King and Mike Flanagan ("Doctor Sleep") are back for a mystical, ambitious tale with a dying (and dancing) Tom Hiddleston and a third act that needs CPR.