The real heartbeat of Troy is a story that history has long forgotten.
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Tom Wright’s new play for Malthouse poses a fundamental question: who can truly own land?
The stories of the Trojan War have been retold for millennia. Who are their key players and is there any truth to these tales?
Long before industry, ancient societies were already pushing their ecosystems to the brink
The excavation of Troy’s rubbish is yielding arhceological treasure: how ordinary people lived several millenia ago.
Both art forms encourage us, the listeners, to react, reflect and ultimately select with which speaker to side.
Based on organic residues – imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level – bronze age wine consumption must be fundamentally reconsidered.
In the final novel in the trilogy that started with The Silence of the Girls, Barker brings the Trojan tragedy to a haunting close – and demands justice for the wrongs of war.
The paintings show the trio of women from Greek myth in a way that makes us see the Trojan War myth anew.
Greek epic poetry often uses mothers and wives to humanize its heroes, reminding listeners of the meaning of sacrifice.
The Trojan Women is a genocide narrative. In this play, the great Athenian dramatist Euripides explores the enslavement of women, human sacrifice, rape and infanticide.
A scholar of Greek literature writes why we need to turn to the past to understand the present – and the lessons that Homer’s hero, Odysseus, holds for us.
When we feel under siege, Chaucer’s doomed love story during the battle for Troy might be just the distraction we need.
From art that centres the African-American experience to feminist retellings, the British Museum’s new exhibition explores culture’s enduring fascination with the legend of Troy
A new BBC series has put Troy back on the map. But how much do we know about this city of legend?
A central idea in the Iliad - a poetic work focused on the war for Troy - is the inevitability of death. The poem held a special place in antiquity, and has resonated in the millennia since.
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Research Associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen
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Emeritus Professor of Classics, La Trobe University
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Exeter
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Associate Professor of Ancient History, University of Leicester
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PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Engaged Philosophy, University of Sheffield
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland