The Trojan War was celebrated by legendary authors like Homer, who told the tale of the large wooden horse that tricked the soldiers of Troy. In the stories, Paris, the son of a Trojan King, ran away ...

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.

A Roman mosaic recently discovered in Britain depicts a long-lost version of the Trojan War story that differs from the most famous telling of the saga. The artifact, known as the Ketton Mosaic, shows ...

Long before Homer’s epics immortalised its fall, Troy was a place of everyday life. Potters shaped jars and bowls destined to ...

In The Full Disclosure Iliad, Jeff Wright presents the complete Trojan War as a single, continuous epic for modern ...

(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for ...

More than 3,000 years after it was supposed to have taken place, there is still doubt as to whether or not the Trojan War actually happened. In Greek mythology, the Bronze Age-era war was a conflict ...

Starring Drita Kabashi and directed by Meghan Finn, Artistic Director of The Tank, A Trojan Woman reimagines Euripides’ ancient text through a contemporary lens. Set in the aftermath of war, the play ...