Nowadays, few people know that Hermione is a character in Homer's Odyssey. But what is her significance and role in Greek ...

Showing kindness to strangers — the Golden Rule — has long been a human ideal. It shouldn't be abandoned now, this writer ...

An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Cassandra, Odysseus…and the wooden horse.

In our most recent session, we discussed the account where two strangers show up unannounced at the door of Menelaus, the king of Sparta. One of the strangers is the son of his dear friend ...

Helen is the wife of Menelaus - King of Sparta - and he musters an army led by his brother Agamemnon to sail to Troy to take Helen back. The war lasts for 10 long years, during which time the main ...