The most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Troy, speaks out about herself. About how war, in all times and places, is ...

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The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other ...

Seven years after the end of the war, when the rest of the kings of Greece had already returned, or their deaths had been confirmed, a number of suitors arrived at Odysseus’ home to try to force a ...

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Playwright Derek Walcott's version of the classic layers the sounds and rhythms of his native Caribbean islands over the story's classical structure.

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