and that the Greeks really were at Troy sometime around 1200 BC – close to the traditional date of the war. A ten-year siege seems to be, from the archaeology, total nonsense. And Helen herself ...

Helen married King Menelaus of Sparta, then ran off with Paris from Troy, precipitating the 10-year Trojan War as a Greek alliance fought to get Helen back. In her first book of poems ...

Total War: Pharaoh got off to a bit of a rocky start ... dynamic aging and royal family trees only apply to male characters.

Near the end of poet Maria Zoccola's "Helen of Troy, 1993," the book's titular protagonist addresses the "gods of difficult ...

It all happens in the small kingdom of Arcadia at the time of the Trojan War. Swedish version of Jacques Offenbach's operetta of the classic Greek myth.

The Story of the Trojan War The tale of the Trojan War is perhaps ... determined to retrieve Helen from Troy. For many years the Greeks camped outside the walls of Troy, but were unable to ...

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.

His peace mission fails, and in making his escape from Sparta, takes Helen with him. The ‘abduction’ unites the Greeks and sends them off on a war against Troy.