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 ...
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 ...
Humanity’s unshakable attraction to warfare and its ramifications are unmistakable themes that run throughout this powerful ...
The cause of war is Helen’s elopement ... about by Homer in The Iliad) and continuing with the creation of the Trojan horse by Odysseus, the means by which Troy is vanquished and Helen returned ...
A TALE OF TROY—John Masefield— MacMillan ... Poet Masefield telescopes the Iliad’s 24 books, hitting such high spots as Paris’ rape of Helen, Agamemnon’s sacrifice of Iphigenia for ...
Chances are you have either read, studied, or heard about “The Iliad” by Homer. The always-innovative Burbage Theatre has ...
Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...