Were Achilles and Patroclus friends or lovers? Commentators have debated this for centuries, but what does the evidence ...

It seemed to be what viewers were after after some complained that Troy: Fall of a City was winding down a bit last week. Tonight's episode definitely ramped things back up again. In episode 6, ...

The legend will live” claim ads for Warner Bros. $200-million-plus epic “Troy,” inspired by Homer’s “The Iliad,” which chronicles the Trojan War. But how closely does the film resemble Homer’s work?

Hector Eldest son of King Priam of Troy; chief warrior on the Trojan side but will meet his match in Achilles Achilles Key warrior on the Greek side - but refuses to fight until his cousin Patroclus ...

The lover: Achilles Discovered by Ulysses , a work by artist Jan de Bray. Wikimedia Commons Book 18 of the Iliad opens with one of the most terrible moments in the classics. Here, the hero Achilles ...

Sega has announced the latest title in Creative Assembly's Total War Saga franchise with a brand-new cinematic trailer. Called A Total War Saga: Troy, the strategy game is scheduled to release on PC ...

I’ve been a Greek history geek since my grandmother sat me down with a bowl of kalamata olives, feta cheese and a book of Greek mythology at the kitchen table and said: “This is your history. This is ...

Brad Pitt, Robert Redford’s golden Mini-Me, is not the first actor to leap to mind for the godlike, muscle-bound Greek killing machine, Achilles, who’s torn between his lust for eternal glory and the ...

Last Friday I watched Troy, the Wolfgang Petersen version of the Trojan War with Brad Pitt (bad, but not quite as bad as you would imagine; in fact quite a lot of fun); Saturday I watched, almost all ...

THE BBC’s £16 million bonkbuster Troy: Fall of a City has been branded a massive waste of cash after pulling in an audience of just 1.6m viewers. The Saturday night prime-time drama, which follows the ...