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Troy reaction series! Big thanks to team members from the Amsterdam Troy Project for coming along and reacting with me. Today ...
This is the third installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here and ...
Principals of the Trojan War, from left: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Ulysses, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon. The illustration is by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein from an 1842 book.
“Unlike Agamemnon, Menelaus and Achilles they will use no sword or spear. No fair Cincinnati Helen is imprisoned. Neither will they devise, like Ulysses, a wooden horse to get within the walls.
Each of the Greek heroes who were said to have sailed back from Troy – Agamemnon, king of the Greeks, for example, or Menelaus, husband of Helen – likely had their own return poem.
Enraged upon the discovery, Menelaus goes to his brother demanding revenge, and Agamemnon seizes the opportunity to bring war to Troy, setting the stage for one of the greatest wars in human history.
But the brothers Menelaus and Agamemnon cannot grasp that her absence from home and family is voluntary, the way it might be for a man. “One time right after our daughter was born,” Helen says ...
Emily Wilson's new translation of "The Iliad" brings a Zoomer-generation vibe to the classical war epic, injecting a modern sensibility to battle that asks, a la 1969: War, what's it good for?
After recent raids on neighboring towns, Menelaus’ brother Agamemnon has laid claim to a young woman named Chryseis. The status of a warrior is reflected by the prizes awarded to him by his ...
Çanakkale, in modern Turkey, sits near the site of Truva, or ancient Troy. The archaeological site is said to have been where the mythical Trojan War took place. But historians say there is real ...