His rape of Helen, Queen of Sparta, whom he carried off to Troy in a fast galley, brought the Greeks to the shores of Asia Minor in 1186 ships ... and the war was ended by a trick: Ulysses ...

There will be no quotes from William Shakespeare’s play Henry V used as the motto for the Royal Navy’s seventh and final Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine. The boat, which is now under ...

A Reading from Homer by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1885). Philadelphia Museum of Art Homer's Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar ...

Ancient Greek vase painting is fascinating, fun, and with few tricks, easy to enjoy. The unique paintings on ancient Greek pottery are like letters from the past. They allow us to learn from the past ...

Sophocles’ tragedy opens in the city of Argos, in the years after the Trojan War. Agamemnon ... the wind from filling the sails of the Greek ships. When he returns from Troy ten years later ...

The Trojan War was the legendary conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans ... The Odyssey, written by Homer in the seventh century BCE, features mysterious self-driving ships—much like modern ...

According to the ancient poet, the inhabitants of the Greek island of Kasos contributed ships to the Trojan War, believed by historians to have erupted in 1258 BCE. Homer mentions this in the ...

Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons The question of Helen’s involvement in the Trojan War ... Greek leaders at Troy. The line runs: “Helen of Troy, ἑλέναυς, ἑλανδρος, ἑλέπτολις.” That is, “Helen of Troy, ...

If you are planning a Greek odyssey this year ... museum on the Sporades island of Alonissos is home to half a dozen ships that were wrecked off this notoriously dangerous coast, including ...

King Charles supported renaming a Royal Navy submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, sparking criticism over "woke ...