And while this trend is gaining huge traction in recent years, as far back as 2011 American author Madeline Miller won the Orange Women’s Prize for Fiction with her own Troy re-telling, The Song ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls.

Imagine seeing the face of Helen of Troy staring back at you, from within the ashes of a 2,000-year-old city. But these aren't the burned walls of T. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

When, in 2018, Pat Barker published “The Silence of the Girls,” the first novel in her Women of Troy series, the popularity of fiction revisiting ancient Greek mythology was still in its infancy.

The trouble was that Troy might not even have existed. The acclaimed Greek poet Homer popularized the Trojans and their city in The Iliad and The Odyssey, the 8th-century B.C. epic poems.These ...

But unless you were an archaeology student, you might not know of Blegen’s contributions. Blegen became famous for helping uncover the ancient city of Troy, found in present-day Hisarlik, Turkey ...

Euripides's "Trojan Women", first performed in 415 BC, is an acerbic condemnation of the atrocities of war. It focusses on the misery and injustices the women of Troy endure after the conflict ...

Schliemann believed that the Troy ruled over by King Priam, as in the Iliad, would be found at the deepest layer of the city, and so, beginning in 1870, he aimed for the base of Hisarlik’s mound.

Archaeologists at Troy have unearthed more than 100 depas goblets dated to between 2500 and 2000 B.C.E. They tend to measure between 5 and 15 inches tall and can contain up to a liter of liquid ...