Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Greeks. The war started when the Trojan prince Paris took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. Homer’s Iliad is an epic poem set in the war’s tenth and final year.

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Rules of the Trojan War?

Rules of the Trojan War?

Heralds interceding at nightfall

6 min read

Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida

A medieval love story

4 min read

Did Odin come from Troy?

Did Odin come from Troy?

The Anatolian origins of the Norse pantheon

10 min read

The Odyssey

The Odyssey

A peacetime epic, or a critique of the values of the Heroic Age?

24 min read

Settling the score

Settling the score

The duel between Paris and Menelaus

9 min read

A Total War Saga: Troy

A Total War Saga: Troy

Thoughts on the game

10 min read

Homer’s Trojan War

Homer’s Trojan War

A video produced by Invicta History

3 min read

Achilles’ heel?

Achilles’ heel?

Origins of a hero’s weak point

5 min read

Mycenaean chariots

Mycenaean chariots

A video produced by Invicta History

7 min read

Blood, bronze, and balony

Blood, bronze, and balony

A video about battles in the Bronze Age

27 min read

Troy just keeps on fallin’

Troy just keeps on fallin’

Depictions of two sackings of Troy on the pediments of the Temple of Aphaia on Aegina

12 min read

Epikouros

Epikouros

An ancient Greek word for mercenary?

4 min read