the boar-tusk helmet [was] featured in ‘The Iliad’ but by the time of the Trojan War c. 1184 BCE it was already old-fashioned and anachronistic,” explains one Reddit user. “Homer probably ...

Troy came to be known by its Greek name, Ilion. A mosaic from Pompeii depicting Alexander the Great; Trojan helmet Troy’s storied past continued to draw Greek visitors, perhaps most famously ...

There has been a lot of discussion recently about the type of helmet that Odysseus will use in Christopher Nolan's film about the Odyssey.