New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

A newfound mosaic draws inspiration from "Phrygians," a play by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus that survives only in bits ...

The Trojan War was one of the most significant and famous events in Greek history – at least, as far as the ancient Greeks ...

Learn how a mosaic in Britain preserves a rare telling of the Trojan War once attributed to the playwright Aeschylus.

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 ...

Ancient Greek story of Ajax, a triumphant Greek hero of the Trojan War who was driven to suicide, powerfully explores the ...

A study of a mosaic discovered on an English farm in 2020 shows that the Romans knew more than just Homer's version of the ...

The battle between Penthesilea and Achilles during the Trojan War. Ancient historians were very concerned with establishing the date when the Trojan War happened. (Marie-Lan-Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons) ...

A rare mosaic found beneath a farmer's field actually depicts a different historical tale than researchers previously thought ...

Homer first wrote of the Trojan war in The Iliad, a story filled with enduring characters: Helen, Paris, Achilles, Hector and Odysseus, to name but a few. And it ends with one of the great ...

The Trojan Horse… It was the ultimate sneak attack, bringing a city that would withstood nine years of battle to its knees. But was it simply a work of fiction? Or did the Greeks really trick the ...