According to legend, long before the Romans founded Rome, there was a Greek city called Pallantium in the same area.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Homer's Iliad has a vast cast of characters. Many of these names are less familiar to mainstream audiences than mighty ...

Odyssey is the fourth, and possibly the last, book in Fry’s recounting of Greek myths and also the least faithful to the ...

After winning the civil war and the death of his former ally ... the Republic and claimed descent from Iulus, son of the Trojan prince Aeneas and grandson of the goddess Venus.

Aeneas one of the few survivors of the Trojan War. But where Aeneas goes on to found Rome, Dido is a suicide, her funeral pyre the last thing Aeneas sees as he sails away from Carthage. What are the ...

[Photo provided to CHINA DAILY] A rather large tapestry from 1620, depicting a scene from the Trojan War, looks down on visitors from a museum wall. Called Aeneas and Anchises, it is one of seven ...

A story that needs no introduction, Homer’s panoramic piece begins in the last year of the Trojan War. Virgil’s Aeneid ... as well as Dante’s Inferno. Aeneas is Virgil’s hero in this ...

The Trojan was first “blooded” in combat via the French Air Force in Algeria from 1960 to 1962 fighting against insurgent ...