When Helen of Troy took on the macho men of Essex

At 32, English playwright Ava Pickett has already had a West End smash with her debut 1536, injected Essex sass into her ...
greekcitytimes.com

Helen of Troy, the Woman Behind the Face That Launched a Thousand Ships

For almost 3,000 years, Helen of Troy has been celebrated as the most beautiful woman in the world and blamed for a war that destroyed a city. Yet the woman behind “the face that launched a thousand ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

2026 Essential Play Festival opens with a play humanizing Helen of Troy

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. This story was originally published by ArtsATL. The Essential Theatre, which focuses solely on producing new work from Georgia writers, will present the ...
National Geographic

This queen was said to be as fair as Helen of Troy—but she was no political pawn

From power to exile and back again, Arsinoe II had one of the most prosperous reigns of Ptolemaic Egypt. A GREEK TRAGEDYCeraunus’s henchmen drag Arsinoe away from the bodies of her sons, just murdered ...
City Journal

Lessons of the Trojan Horse

A clever device invented to end a war. Destruction of the sacred and violence against the innocent. Mayhem. Pillage. Atrocity. Embers and sparks rising into the night air. The inventor himself stands ...
today.troy

It Came from the Archives: Part 2 of U.S. patents describes innovation by many living in the Wiregrass

Part 1 of this series, covering 1855 through World War II, is available at https://today.troy.edu/news/it-came-from-the-archives-the-inventiveness-of-wiregrass ...
Today

I’m a Black Greek Woman. What Lupita Nyong’o’s Casting as Helen of Troy in ‘The Odyssey’ Meant to Me

Evelin Boatenk walked into a screening of “The Odyssey” on a Thursday night — and left the theater completely changed. “It was 100% a healing experience,” Boatenk, an influencer and owner of a social ...
AOL

Christopher Nolan got his Helen of Troy casting exactly right

Spoiler alert! We're discussing important details about the plot of “The Odyssey” (in theaters now). Stop reading if you haven’t seen it yet and don’t want to know what happens. If you're casting a ...
Al Jazeera English

Why is Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey so controversial?

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, an epic poem composed nearly 2,800 years ago, has drawn a flood of criticism — starting even before audiences had seen a single frame. The controversy ...
Rolling Stone

In Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey,’ the Fall of Troy Is a Warning to Us All

Christopher Nolan’s overall excellent adaptation of The Odyssey is many things, yet despite online rumors to the contrary, it is most certainly not “woke.” Anyone adapting a foundational text of all ...
Slate

What Did Helen of Troy Look Like? That’s the Wrong Question to Ask.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. But is this choice even a race-bent one ...