The Troy movie Christopher Nolan almost directed is one of Hollywood’s most fascinating what-ifs. Before the 2004 epic starring Brad Pitt went into production, Nolan was briefly considered to take on ...

In a recent cover story for Empire Magazine, director Christopher Nolan shared a surprising piece of Hollywood history. Nolan ...

Batman fans should forever feel grateful that Warner Bros. Pictures canceled a planned Superman movie in the 2000s, as ...

Written nearly 3,000 years ago, Homer’s “The Iliad” is one of the oldest texts still read today. The story takes place in the waning days of the nine-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans (known ...

Achilles was the son of King Peleus, the mortal king of the Myrmidons, and Thetis, goddess of the sea or a sea nymph. Peleus may have been mortal, but he had divine roots being the grandson of Zeus, ...

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a conjecture of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the legendary fortress ...

In October 2025, a claim (archived) from months earlier recirculated online. According to social media posts, the Cuban-born "Latinos for Trump" leader and activist Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho had been ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse football coach Fran Brown is hoping Steve Angeli will be far enough along in his recovery from a torn Achilles tendon that he’ll be ready to participate when the Orange ...

Homer’s Iliad, written in the seventh century BCE, describes the final year of the Trojan War. In one part of the narrative, a battle between the Greek hero Achilles and Hector of Troy occurs. In the ...

Los Angeles — In the Roman interpretations of Homer’s Iliad, the Greek warrior Achilles was dipped in the River Styx by his mother Thetis, seeking to make him invulnerable. She held him by his little ...

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