Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

A fresco depicting the meeting of Helen (here, in Greek, Elene) and Alexandros (prince Paris of Troy – Alexandros was his name as a foundling shepherd). Credit: Chappsnet, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA ...

The Trojan War was a time of heroes, gods, and myths - but were the legends true?

In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope, wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy, is portrayed as the ...

The Penguin finale opens with a Dr. Rush–induced flashback where Francis relives the moment she decided to end the life of ...

In the hands of great raconteurs like Stephen Fry, the retelling of classical stories turns into a form of its own ...

Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka. At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with ...