Perhaps the most striking thing about "Helen of Troy," the new USA Network miniseries based on very old tales from Greek mythology, is -- to put it bluntly -- Helen's fanny. It makes a conspicuous ...

Part travelogue, part history and more tedium than Ilium, this exhaustive look at the factual underpinnings to Helen of Troy's mythic tale begins promisingly enough but proceeds at such a snail's ...

“Helen of Troy” [ 1/2] Sunday and Monday nights at 8 on USA ———- ONE of the biggest sagas of all time, Homer’s Iliad, introduced the idea of a face that could la… ...

Beneath the epic tales of heroes and gods, Troy's true story is written in something far less glamorous—its rubbish.

Love and war with Achilles, Hector, and Helen of Troy in a hot new telling of Homer’s epic “The Iliad.” Scene from Book XXIV of the Iliad: Hector's corpse brought back to Troy (detail).

Though she is under the especial charge of Aphrodite, and is once called Zeus’ daughter, Helen seems to be, in the Iliad, merely a fair, selfish, fickle woman.

But look beyond a scantily clad Brad Pitt and you’ll see that the movie is based on Homer’s “The Iliad,” one of the most famous books in the history of literature (to be exact, it’s a ...

Scholars have long debated whether the city of Troy described in Homer’s “Iliad” actually existed, but its afterlife is indisputably real. For some 3,000 years, the legend of Troy’s ...

I brought some of my team members from the Amsterdam Troy Project to sit and react to the 2004 epic Troy with me! Even though we can't get to Troy this year to carry out our excavations, we can still ...