Poem of the Day: ‘To Helen ... Perhaps “Nicean” refers to Nicaea, an ancient Greek colony in Asia Minor, near the Bosporus, although the colony was founded long after the Trojan War and is most famous ...

Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town of Pompeii.. Discovered inside ...

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...