Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired the citizens of a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their main square. Tevfikiye, is located 1 km away from the archaeological site of ancient...
The Trojan War is one of the greatest events of Greek legend. It was a war that involved far more than just a single city. In fact, representatives from all over Greece participated in this event, according to the...
Homer was the composer of the Iliad, the most famous account of the Trojan War. Generally, Homer is thought to have actually lived many generations—possibly even centuries—after the events he described. Yet some ancient commentators believed that Homer actually...
Homer’s The Iliad, which recounts the fabled story of the Trojan War, is perhaps the most famous of ancient Greek literary works. Its subject matter is rousing and electrifying yet also profoundly human. It is a tale of war...
Scholars continue to be fascinated by the question of when Homer composed the Iliad, and one recent study even applied mathematics to try to pinpoint its date. There are numerous ways of investigating this, such as examining artwork on...
The Trojan War was the legendary conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans. However, it did not just involve Greeks from the mainland. A large part of the Grecian army came from some Greek islands in the Aegean, such...
Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad. It wasn’t placed beside the body, but inside the mummy’s abdomen. However, the real surprise isn’t just where the fragment was found. It’s how...
Homer's Iliad tells the saga of the city of Troy and the mythical Trojan war that took place between the Greeks and the Trojans.
by Chris Mackie
Homer’s Iliad is usually thought of as the first work of European literature—and many...
The Iliad, composed by Homer in c. 650 BC, is a cornerstone of Ancient Greek literature and contains numerous descriptions of warfare. For many years, scholars argued that its portrayal of warfare in the Trojan War comes from accurately preserved...
The story of the Trojan Horse is one of the most famous stories in Greek mythology. It is part of the climax of the dramatic legend of the Trojan War. However, researchers have differing ideas about what the Trojan...
