Learn about the Trojan War story, why the Trojan War was fought, and who was in the Trojan War. Also, read about different Greek heroes of the...
Mary admitted to me that, as a young woman, she was determined to become a stewardess. During the late 1940s and ’50s, young working class women of her generation were on track to marry and have a family. But before they settled down in postwar suburbia with a husband and kids, many...
The Iliad and the Odyssey are thought to have been written by the ancient Greek poet Homer, who lived in Ionia in the ninth or eighth century BCE. "The Iliad" narrates the events of the Trojan War, focusing on the hero Achilles, while "The Odyssey" follo
It was here that graves pre-dating the Trojan War were located, and where many of the magnificent finds of Mycenae were discovered, including the golden death mask Heinrich Schliemann mistakenly took to be the ‘Face of Agamemnon’. In this post, we are going outside the fortress walls of ...
“The Trojan Women” has long been considered an innovative and artistic portrayal of the aftermath of the Trojan War, as well as a penetrating depiction of the barbaric behaviour of Euripides‘ own countrymen towards the women and children of the people they subjugated in war. Although in ...
Troy - Trojan War, Ancient City, Turkey: The Classical legends of the Trojan War developed continuously throughout Greek and Latin literature. In Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the earliest literary evidence available, the chief stories have already taken s
Achilles, in Greek legend, was the son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons, and the Nereid, or sea nymph, Thetis. Homer’s Iliad describes Achilles as the greatest warrior in the army of Agamemnon in the Trojan War and recounts how his rage affec
Thetis, in Greek mythology, a Nereid loved by Zeus and Poseidon. When Themis (goddess of Justice), however, revealed that Thetis was destined to bear a son who would be mightier than his father, the two gods gave her to Peleus, king of the Myrmidons of T
Timeline of the 1970s Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo:The Procession of the Trojan Horse into TroyThe Procession of the Trojan Horse into Troy, oil on canvas by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, c. 1760; in the National Gallery, London. Trojan War