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An Athenian tragedy that belongs to the transmitted plays of Euripides. Its authorship has been disputed since antiquity, and the issue has invested modern scholarship since the 17th century when the play's authenticity was challenged, first by Joseph Scaliger and subsequently by others, partly on aesthetic grounds and partly on peculiarities in the play's vocabulary, style and technique. The conventional attribution to Euripides remains controversial....

In this Part 3 of the BBC series "In Search of the Trojan War," Michael Woods searches for historic evidence of the Trojan War described by the blind bard Homer 500 years after the event. He visits Bronze Age ruins of places listed in the Catalogue of Ships, and enlists a Gaelic story-teller and a professional bard in Turkish Armenia to demonstrate the oral tradition.

Homer wrote his epic, "The Iliad," 500 years after the Trojan Wars were supposed to have taken place. On what did he base his story? Did the Trojan War ever happen? Where was Troy situated? Did Paris and Helen really exist? Join historian Michael Wood as he combs the cradle of civilization from Greece to Turkey and Western Europe in search of archaeological evidence that may validate the fantastic battles immortalized in Homer's legend. Over six hour-long...

In Part 2 of the BBC series "In Search for the Trojan War," historian Michael Woods introduces three new archaeologists who join Heinrich Schliemann in the search for Troy: German architect Wilhelm Dörpfeld who uncovered the walls of Troy partially destroyed by Schliemann's excavations at Hisarlik; Sir Arthur John Evans who declared the Minoan Theory of Bronze Age dominance after excavating Knossos; and American Carl Blegen who found Mycenaean tablets...

Chronicle of events of the Trojan War from the death of Hector to the departure of the Greeks from Troy. Written about 360 A.D.

In the conclusion of the trilogy retelling the story of Homer's "Iliad," the allies of the Mykene king Agamemnon, including a reluctant Odysseus, ruler of Ithaca, and the fierce warrior Achilles, gather to prepare a final onslaught against the Golden City of Troy.

A retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of its women follows the stories of a vigil-keeping Penelope, an Amazon princess rival of Achilles, and three goddesses whose feud sparks a tragic conflict.

"Heinrich Schliemann (German: [li?man]; 6 January 1822? 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and a pioneer of field archaeology. He was an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. Schliemann was an archaeological excavator of Hissarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual...