In the Iliad, did Homer really describe the type of warfare common to the Mycenaean Era? Or was he describing the warfare of ...

The fame of the beautiful Helen, the deeds of the ... what was then the small town of Troy as the “mother-city” of Rome. The prime written source, the Iliad, actually focusses on only a ...

Did the legendary kings of Troy really exist? Some researchers argue that they appear in Hittite letters, but is this really ...

The Trojan War and its events provide the background for two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey ... determined to retrieve Helen from Troy. For many years the Greeks camped outside the walls ...

Two stunning frescoes depicting mythical figures like Apollo and Helen of Troy tower across a newly-explored part of Pompeii.