Troy: 142 minutes of myths, heroes and battles! Arthur J Pais ... the wife of the Spartan king. Achilles, who is fighting against the Trojans, has no personal stake in the war.

The legendary ancient city of Troy is very much in the limelight this year: a big budget co-production between the BBC and Netflix: Troy, Fall of a City, recently launched, while Turkey designated ...

The epic poem describes, in gory and lyrical detail, 52 days near the end of the ten-year siege of Troy, the “well-fortified” city ruled by the kindly King Priam.

He called this “Priam’s Treasure,” after the mythical king of Troy. However, Troy II and the treasure date to around 2400 B.C., more than 1,000 years before the supposed events of the Trojan ...