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📜 The Trojan War: History vs. Myth - On Extra Mythology we've been covering the myth of the Trojan War recorded in the Iliad, but that's all it is right? There's no way a massive war like that ...
This documentary explores one of the most enduring questions in ancient history - did the Trojan War actually happen? We examine Homer’s Iliad, the archeological remains of ancient Troy, and ...
In the second half of the 5th Century BC, Herodotus, the so-called ‘Father of History’, placed the Trojan War almost 800 years before his own time. Eratosthenes, a mathematician, was more ...
The battle between Penthesilea and Achilles during the Trojan War. Ancient historians were very concerned with establishing the date when the Trojan War happened. (Marie-Lan-Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons) ...
Homer first wrote of the Trojan war in The Iliad, a story filled with enduring characters: Helen, Paris, Achilles, Hector and Odysseus, to name but a few. Author Barry Strauss revisits the classic ...
Mention the Trojan War, and what may first come to mind is the oft-told tale of Helen, wife of Sparta’s King Menelaus and possessor of a divinely bestowed beauty, falling in love with Paris of ...
This is a Short History Of The Trojan War. A Noiser Production, written by Jo Furniss. With thanks to Professor Armand D’Angour, a classical scholar at Jesus College, Oxford, ...
UCLA kept up its quadrennial tradition on Thursday when its marching band re-enacted the Trojan War during a football halftime show. The band could’ve done this on its own, but it turned out ...
Review: 'The Trojan War Museum,' By AyÅŸe Papatya Bucak AyÅŸe Papatya Bucak's debut collection is full of musical, lyrical stories that occupy a dreamscape of Turkish culture, art history and ...
Mention the Trojan War and what may first come to mind is the oft-told tale of Helen, wife of Sparta’s King Menelaus and possessor of a divinely bestowed beauty, falling in love with Paris of ...