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 ...

One of two great epic poems by Homer to survive from ancient Greece, The Iliad unfolds across two months in the final year of the Trojan War. The Greeks – led by Agamemnon, and with Achilles as ...

For her new book “The Silence of the Girls,” writer Pat Barker decided to tell the story of “The Iliad” from the point of view of the women taken captive during the Trojan War.