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The 1st trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is now playing exclusively in theaters, and I think it reveals Jon ...
Troy reaction series! Big thanks to team members from the Amsterdam Troy Project for coming along and reacting with me. Today ...
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who assembled a suitably heroic cast featuring the likes of Brad Pitt, Peter O’Toole, Brian ...
The Troy site was inhabited almost continually from 3000 B.C. to the Roman times in the first century A.D. Part of Blegen’s goal was to find archaeological evidence of the Trojan War.
‘The Voyage Home’ gives new blood to an ancient tale Pat Barker’s third novel in her multi-book reevaluation of the Trojan War follows Cassandra on her ill-fated trip to Agamemnon’s court.
Schliemann believed he had found the body of the mythical king Agamemnon, who led the Achaean (Greek) siege of Troy in Homer's "Iliad ” (he is also mentioned in Homer's "Odyssey" and features in ...
The gruesome slaughter (and cannibalism) of Agamemnon’s nephews by his father. The horrific crime of babies tossed from the walls of Troy (on Agamemnon’s orders).
The legend of Troy – a city sparking with fire, a cataclysmic war and a refugee crisis – always has something more to offer writers looking for inspiration. The unspeakable horrors of conflict. The ...
It is the story of Cassandra, a royal priestess of Troy enslaved as a concubine by the Greek king Agamemnon. Yet Medusa’s image haunts Barker’s text.
The core idea of Troy, however, remains the same. King Agamemnon (a delightfully hammy Brian Cox) has devoured the Greek kingdoms and forced them into subservience in his quest for tyrannical power.