Here's how Homer describes Helen of Troy in "The Odyssey" – and the key reason why Christopher Nolan's casting of Lupita ...

When you think of Troy in terms of college athletics, you often think about their football team. The Trojans are a traditional power at their level. From Larry Blakeney, to Neal Brown, to most ...

Sometimes the seeds of collapse are sown in the very soil of prosperity. Beneath the ancient city of Troy's shining walls, the earth quietly cracked under the weight of its ambition. When we think of ...

Imagine a city that thrived for thousands of years, its streets alive with workshops, markets and the laughter of children, yet that is remembered for a single night of fire. That city is Troy. Long ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Graham Bartholomew/BBC/Wild Mercury Productions The legendary ancient city of Troy is very much in the limelight this year: a big ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few stories in history have such a clear starting point as the feud of Troy and Sparta, as told by Homer in the annals of Greek ...

Over a few short months in 1871, Heinrich Schliemann achieved a task that had eluded literature’s fiercest ensemble of warriors: he breached the supposedly impregnable walls of Troy. To do so, the ...

The Women of Troy opens with warriors crouched, silent, and waiting in the belly of the Trojan Horse, "packed tight as olives in a jar." The city is breached, and Pyrrhus, son of the dead hero ...