Although there are more spectacular ancient sites on Turkey’s Aegean coast, including the magnificent library at Ephesus and ...

The cause of the Trojan War, famously, was the elopement of beautiful Helen, queen of the Greek city of Sparta, with Paris, Hector’s brother and a handsome prince from the Asiatic kingdom of Troy.

Hector was a fairly common name for dogs at that time, perhaps from schoolboys’ study of the Trojan War and wanting to imbue their dogs with heroic characteristics.

The Trojan War is perhaps the most famous of all Greek legends. It tells of the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (in Anatolia in modern-day Turkey) and the eventual destruction of that city by a … ...

Hector, of course, was the Trojan prince who famously fell to Achilles in one-on-one combat in the final day of the Trojan War. (Eric Bana played him in the 2004 movie Troy , if that helps jog ...

Homer first wrote of the Trojan war in The Iliad, a story filled with enduring characters: Helen, Paris, Achilles, Hector and Odysseus, to name but a few. Author Barry Strauss revisits the classic ...

In one of the most moving and memorable scenes from the “Iliad,” the great Trojan warrior Hector says farewell to his wife, Andromache, who has urged him not to risk his life by fighting on ...

The Trojan War ensues. Hector falls. Achilles falls. The Trojans accept an odd wooden horse, and then, the city and the rest of its men fall, sacked beneath the Greek army. Written by Euripides, The ...

New Total War Game, Troy, Covers The Trojan War; First Trailer Sees Achilles Fight Hector. The conflict between the Greeks and Trojans will be the backdrop of the next Total War.

The play follows the outlines of the “Iliad,” with Achilles, the standard bearer of the Greeks, sulking in his tent, refusing to respond to a battle challenge from Trojan prince Hector.