Troy reaction series! Big thanks to team members from the Amsterdam Troy Project for coming along and reacting with me. Today ...

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

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

Bruce DuBose returns to the stage in "An Iliad," an adaptation of Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War. The producing artistic director of Undermain Theatre suffered a stroke last December.

The Iliad is a long poem – an epic – thought to have first been put down in writing in the eighth century BC, though the story is set several hundred years before, perhaps as early as the 12th ...

Emily Wilson, who translated The Iliad in 2023, gives a lively contemporary reading. The Iliad is a story of war between Greeks and Trojans, but also of “beefs”.

Principals of the Trojan War, from left: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Ulysses, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon. The illustration is by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein from an 1842 book.

‘The Voyage Home’ gives new blood to an ancient tale Pat Barker’s third novel in her multi-book reevaluation of the Trojan War follows Cassandra on her ill-fated trip to Agamemnon’s court.

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 ...

Schliemann believed he had found the body of the mythical king Agamemnon, who led the Achaean (Greek) siege of Troy in Homer's "Iliad ” (he is also mentioned in Homer's "Odyssey" and features in ...

Thus, when reading Wilson’s Iliad one senses something of the chant of Homer’s verse, even through the written word. A free translation Wilson’s book is much more than a translation.

Menelaus holding the body of Patroclus – Diana Mantuana (1535-1587). Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsA new translation of the Iliad of Homer is cause for a general celebration, especially ...