She’s also one of the most tenacious; from the moment when Helen first enters the record in Book 2 of Homer’s Iliad back in the Iron Age, there isn’t a single decade when she leaves the ...

Ah, the myth that launched a thousand ships. The apple thrown into the middle of a greek banquet would ruin lives and lay ...

including Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which is at least 2,500 years old. The cause of war is Helen’s elopement from the Spartan court with Paris, a Trojan prince. Helen is the wife of ...

I had never felt closer to Homer’s Iliad – and the Greek heroes of the Trojan War. This was where Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, headed off to Troy, on Turkey’s west coast, to bring back Helen ...