The question of Helen’s involvement in the Trojan War clearly poses difficult questions—and has done so ever since the age of ...

The Iliad is a poem of violence, with many of the scores of deaths described in excruciating detail. But the fight is not ...

Soldiers are different. They are servants of the state. In well-governed countries, they are bound by discipline, the rule of ...

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee.

As incredible new discoveries are found at the archaeological site, Professor of classics Michael Scott and presenter of ...

There will be no quotes from William Shakespeare’s play Henry V used as the motto for the Royal Navy’s seventh and final Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine. The boat, which is now under ...

Credit: Parco archeologico di Pompeii/Cover Images Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered a luxurious private spa and bath complex that would’ve belonged to the Roman equivalent of today’s ...

According to legend, Paris’ decision—and Aphrodite’s promise to reward him with the love of Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world—soon sparked the Trojan War. An early 19th ...

After months of attacks, residents of Gaza continued to face the brutality of Israel's war. Credit ... Household Cavalry horses Trojan and Vida on the loose bolting through the streets of London ...