As Herodotus discloses, Homer knew the story of Helen’s abduction did not occur in quite the same way as presented in the Iliad. The true story, related to Herodotus by a few Egyptian divines ...

She’s also one of the most tenacious; from the moment when Helen first enters the record in Book 2 of Homer’s Iliad back in the Iron Age, there isn’t a single decade when she leaves the ...

Chances are you have either read, studied, or heard about “The Iliad” by Homer. The always-innovative Burbage Theatre has ...

I had never felt closer to Homer’s Iliad – and the Greek heroes of the Trojan War. This was where Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, headed off to Troy, on Turkey’s west coast, to bring back Helen ...

including Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which is at least 2,500 years old. The cause of war is Helen’s elopement from the Spartan court with Paris, a Trojan prince. Helen is the wife of ...