In the first book of the Iliad, the god Hephaestus passes a “double goblet” around at a banquet on Mount Olympus. “He poured ...

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the ...

Based on organic residues – imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level – bronze age wine ...

A team of researchers from the universities of Tübingen, Bonn, and Jena has conclusively demonstrated that wine was consumed in the ancient city of Troy, providing chemical evidence that supports a ...

An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Cassandra, Odysseus…and the wooden horse.

Paris, Prince of Troy, is blown off-course and lands his ship at Sparta - home of Menelaus and his queen, Helen. The story is told by the Old Soldier, looking back forty years to when he was a ...