Throughout history stories of myth and legend have been told and retold through generations of oral and visual customs. Keeping up this very ancient tradition in a very modern way, today's version of these tales are told through technology. Television, motion pictures and the internet are the...

When the ancient Greek craftsmen and builders toiled away in 550 BC, they knew that their labors would not be in vain; they knew that they would be blessed. To the early Greeks, the legends of the Greek gods were more than legends; they were beliefs that most Greeks shared. Greek mythology is a myst...

The Iliad is a poem divided into twenty-four books, about Troy, written in the late eighth or early seventh century B. C. by Homer. The saga is about the tenth year of a war between the Greeks and the Trojans, around 1200 B. C. , and takes place before the city of Troy. While the Greeks are stood by...

A man tries to be the one who drives the course of his life, to fight against what gets in his way, and to create something beautiful with the pieces of his world. But being able to succeed in such tasks is never a simple thing in the classic Greek world of Homer\'s Iliad. Though there are exception...