Troy

Jeff Wright serializes the Trojan War narrative episode by episode, each followed by roughly fifteen minutes of commentary in a comic, modern tone; 20 of 21 episodes are included here, confined to one era across 23 hours.

This miniseries dramatizes the 10-year siege of Troy and the love affair between Paris and Helen, an original take on the Greek myths that first aired on BBC One in February 2018 before Netflix streamed it internationally.

Michael Wood writes and presents this six-part BBC documentary series from 1985, examining how far historical and archeological evidence matches Homer's account of the Trojan War in the Iliad.

Wolfgang Petersen directed this 2004 film starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom, loosely based on Homer's Iliad and condensing the decade-long Trojan War as Achilles and the Greek army besiege Hector's Troy.

Robert Wise directed this 1956 film based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, shot in CinemaScope by Harry Stradling Sr with a score by Max Steiner, sometimes described as an overlooked Robert Wise epic.

Directed by Giorgio Ferroni, this 1961 Italian peplum film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War focuses primarily on the Trojan hero Aeneas, with Steve Reeves as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus.

Michael Cacoyannis directed this 1971 film starring Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave and Irene Papas, staying close to Edith Hamilton's translation of Euripides' play while omitting the deities, which Cacoyannis called hard to film and make realistic.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

This hundred-minute finale has Odysseus confront Priam and Menelaus confront Helen on the night Troy burns, closing a twenty-episode arc that began with the apple of discord.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Ruby Blondell

Conversations: author and scholar Ruby Blondell joins Liv to discuss Helen of Sparta, Troy, and the Silver Screen, tied to her new book Helen of Troy in Hollywood.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski examines the archaeological excavations at Hisarlik, the site most likely to be Ancient Troy, to weigh how much of Homer's Iliad reflects reality and how much is myth.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Hector returning to Troy in Book 6 of the Iliad, the duel between Glaucus and Diomedes, and Helen's lament to Prince Hector.

Directed by Alexander Korda, this 1927 American silent comedy adventure about Helen of Troy, based on the 1925 novel by John Erskine, stars María Corda as Helen, Lewis Stone as Menelaus and Ricardo Cortez as Paris.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski contextualizes Homer's Iliad through the Trojan War narrative in the Library of Apollodorus, tracing the major gods, goddesses and characters in that mythic tradition.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Sixty minutes of story carry Odysseus from decoding a prophecy to building the wooden horse, then twenty minutes of commentary weigh a hide-covered battering ram against an earthquake that felled Troy 6 around 1250 BCE.

Part of Greeced Lightning

In the series premiere, Sara Hales-Brittain teaches Luke and Sam the legend of the Trojan War, the epic cycle, and Paris's past, weighing the film Troy against the Iliad.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic unravel the story of Homer's Odyssey, asking what historical events it may be based on and where Odysseus, the epic's hero, might have faced his trials in real life.

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Liv finishes reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, covering the war's final horrors and the Greeks' troubled journey home.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean · Liv Albert on Greek myths and the wider ancient Mediterranean, told casually and with sarcasm; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, covering the funeral games the Greeks held for Achilles, organized by Thetis.

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Liv continues reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, where the Trojans gain a new champion in Eurypylus, grandson of Heracles.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST · The Trojan War told in order, with commentary after each story

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With Eric Cline

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Liv continues reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, covering the Trojan Horse stratagem and its disastrous outcome for Sinon and Laocoon.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara and Sam revisit the Trojan War through the 2018 series Troy: Fall of a City, weighing its chariots, birth plans, retelling of Helen, and distracting bowl cuts.

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Liv continues reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, as the wounded Paris turns to the wife he abandoned for Helen to save him.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean · Liv Albert on Greek myths and the wider ancient Mediterranean, told casually and with sarcasm; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Natalie Haynes

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Liv continues reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, as Neoptolemus helps the Greeks defeat Eurypylus before Troy's final stand.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean · Liv Albert on Greek myths and the wider ancient Mediterranean, told casually and with sarcasm; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Kate Compton

Kate Compton joins the hosts in wrapping up the war that will never end, an episode featuring Memnon, Penthesilea and a big wooden horse the Trojans should have seen coming.

Part of Myths and Legends

The Greeks finally find their way into Troy, taking plenty of ridiculous side quests along the way, including a cameo from one of Greek myth's most famous heroes.

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The best scene in the Iliad shows Hector and Andromache on the wall, mourning honestly with those who suffer defeat and revealing what the poem says about polytheism among the Trojans.

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Euripides staged Trojan Women in Athens months after Athenians captured Melos, and Hecuba, Cassandra and Andromache carry the play's depiction of the fall of Troy.

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Liv reads from Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, in which the Greeks honor the dead Achilles with funeral games organized by Thetis.

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With Tony Gonzalez, Sam Johnides

Guests Tony Gonzalez and Sam Johnides bookend the episode with a preview of their musical about Orpheus and Eurydice, Happily Ever Under, while tales of Achilles, Odysseus, Helen and Patroclus fill out the main discussion.

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With Paul Cartledge

Professor Paul Cartledge tells Ellie Cawthorne whether the Trojan War of Achilles, Helen and the wooden horse really happened, discussing archaeological remains believed to be Troy and why Homer's Iliad may not be the most reliable historical source.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

Hector is on hand to discuss Hector, marking the first time the episode's guest and its subject are one and the same as the show tackles the Illiad.

Part of Instant Classics

Mary and Charlotte trace Helen of Troy through Christopher Marlowe's line about a face that launched a thousand ships, Shakespeare's reply, and modern versions by Margaret Atwood, Pat Barker and Natalia Haynes.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Chris Lewis

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues Quintus Smyrnaeus' The Fall of Troy, the only surviving source retelling the end of the Trojan War, as Troy reels after the Amazon Penthesilea's death.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 3 of the Iliad stages the duel between Menelaus and Paris that nearly ended the Trojan War, weighing glory and honor on the battlefield.

Part of Myths and Legends

Achilles is back, and it becomes god against god, Greek against Trojan, Achilles against Hector, in the most epic battle yet of the Trojan War.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Dr Gillian Shepherd surveys vase painters of the 6th and 5th centuries BC, for whom the Trojan War was a very popular subject, including scenes that do not appear in any literary version of the myth.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic journey through the life of Helen of Troy, from her godly parentage and marriage to the king of Sparta to her abduction to Troy, asking whether she was a victim or the mistress of her own fate.

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Liv continues reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, as Odysseus and Diomedes search for Achilles' son Neoptolemus to counter Eurypylus.

Part of Instant Classics

Mary and Charlotte examine Helen through Homer's Iliad, where she watches Paris duel Menelaus, and Virgil's Aeneid, where she becomes a hate figure and focus of Aeneas's murderous fantasies.

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With C. Brian Rose

When Heinrich Schliemann began excavating Troy in the late 19th century, understanding of the ancient world changed forever; Tristan and Professor C. Brian Rose ask what modern archaeology tells us about the people who lived there.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic trace how archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered in 1870 what he claimed was Troy, then searched for Mycenae, the dominion of Agamemnon, whose sacrifice of his daughter unleashed a terrible vengeance from Clytemnestra.

Part of Myths and Legends

This is the culmination of many earlier stories, bringing together Achilles, Helen, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Hector and Odysseus in the opening telling of the Trojan War.

Part of Our Fake History

To weigh whether the Trojan War was a real historical event, this final part scours the Iliad for clues, peruses ancient Hittite clay tablets and checks archaeological evidence Heinrich Schliemann did not destroy.

Part of Our Fake History

For the Ancient Greeks the Trojan War marked the bloody end of the so-called Age of Heroes, when superhuman demi-gods stopped walking the earth; was any of it a real conflict?

Part of Epic Greek History

Clues from the Homeric epics, excavations at Troy and ancient Hittite documents on whether the Trojan War saga had its basis in historical fact, after the 19th-century discoveries of Troy and Mycenaean Greece.

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Boar's-tusk helmets, Nestor's cup, elaborate burials and a catalog of ships supply the archaeological and linguistic evidence weighed here for a historical core to the Trojan War.

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Menelaus sparks the biggest battle of the war so far, and it only grows bigger from there, as the Trojan War, still without Achilles, takes its darkest turn yet.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War · La Trobe University lectures on Homer, myth and the Greek wars

With Heather Sebo

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The episode asks whether burned palaces in Mycenaean Greece, and a city known as Troy among those destroyed on the Asian side of the Aegean, were the context that centuries later gave rise to Homer's tale of the Trojan War.

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With Emily Hauser

Cursed by Apollo to always speak the truth but never be believed, Cassandra's story is explored by Tristan Hughes and Dr Emily Hauser through her treatment at the hands of gods and men, and her role in the Iliad.

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Wolfgang Petersen's 2004 film Troy gets revisited here, questioning its Homeric spirit and awarding Orlando the Tiresias prize for the most obnoxious performance in the cast.

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The events that transpired which caused the Trojan War, one of the largest scale wars in Greek mythology and its most significant war.

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Mary and Charlotte follow Helen's journey home from Troy after Menelaus spares her, through a stop in Egypt to Sparta, where Telemachus, son of Odysseus, arrives asking after his father.

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With Natalie Haynes

To mark Women's History Month, Tristan and Natalie Haynes discuss the place of Helen of Troy in mythology and history, often viewed through the male gaze, and her conception, abductions and grief after the Trojan War.

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The episode centers on Cassandra, the prophet who the hosts say was always right and never believed, as the host approaches the Trojan War with more shenanigans about Achilles and a psychopath Apollo.

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With Natalie Haynes

Part of Our Fake History

Amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann believed he had found proof that Troy existed, and his celebrated finds earned him the moniker father of archaeology, though he was also a prolific liar who misrepresented his findings.

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Part of Spartan History Podcast

Part two follows Helen's abduction by Paris from Sparta to the walls of Troy, where for the first time her voice is heard, closing like the Iliad itself with her oration at the funeral of mighty Hector.

Part of Instant Classics

Mary and Charlotte trace Helen's origins to Zeus disguised as a swan forcing himself upon Leda, her marriage to Menelaus, and the Judgement of Paris, who chose among Hera, Athena and Aphrodite.

Part of The Greek Myth Files

David Wilson's script covers Helen, daughter of Leda and Zeus, whose infidelity the episode frames as the cause of the Trojan War.

Part of The Rest Is History

Described as the most legendary story ever told, the Trojan War is examined by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, who ask whether it actually happened and whether it was really fought over a beautiful woman.

Part of Greek Mythology Retold

An exploration of how Helen of Sparta and Troy became the symbolic spark of the Trojan War, and how, as a favorite of Aphrodite, she endured the goddess' blessings and curses.

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Euripides' Trojan Women follows the horror after Troy's fall through Hecuba its queen, Cassandra its prophetess, and Andromache, the widow of Hector.

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The Trojan War ends with Achilles and his famous heel, the Trojan horse, and the fate awaiting the Trojans once the Greeks are done.

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With Eric Cline

Eric H. Cline, professor of ancient history and archaeology at George Washington University, digs into ancient poetry and archaeological discoveries at Troy to explain whether historical truth lies behind the legend.

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This is the episode where Helen of Sparta becomes Helen of Troy, the event that launches 1000 ships toward the city in the east and starts it all.

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Before Agamemnon and Achilles ever reached Troy, the city already had a messy encounter with a sea monster, Heracles and a set of very fancy horses.

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With Daisy Dunn

Classicist Daisy Dunn asks how much of the Trojan War, one of the most famous events in Greek mythology known largely through Homer's Iliad, is true, revisiting literary and archaeological evidence for the clash between the Greeks and Troy.

Directed by Giovanni Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto, this 1911 Italian silent short is the first known cinematographic adaptation of Homer's epic poem, the Iliad.

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The Trojan War's origins begin at the disastrous wedding of Peleus and the nymph Thetis, followed by the births of Paris and Achilles.

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With Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes, author of 'A Thousand Ships', discusses her all-female retelling of the Trojan War and the classical accounts of that legendary war and its terrible aftermath.

Part of Kings and Generals

The historicity of the Trojan War is examined through the Iliad of Homer and the Mycenaean and Hittite civilizations, asking whether Hector, Achilles, Helen and Paris were real at the end of the Bronze Age.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

The Iliad opens with Achilles and Agamemnon locked in a major spat over a prize, drawing the gods in to settle the matter.

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The Iliad's second installment follows the Greeks planning their approach while the Trojans prepare for the coming attack, full of vineyards and doves.

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More of Diomedes' madness sets the stage for a day in the life of Hector, warrior prince of Troy.

Part of Chronicles of Ancient Greece

The episode follows Odysseus as he messes with a Cyclops, calling it a really bad idea, and asks what's in the bag.

Part of The Greek Myth Files

R. Scott Smith traces Trojan genealogy from the area's earliest figures, the local Teucros and the immigrant Dardanos, down to Priam's children Hector and Paris.

Part of Greek Mythology Retold · Janell Rhiannon on the Trojan War myths, from Helen to Odysseus

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Paris and Helen jet off to Troy, leaving Helen's husband peeved, while Agamemnon assembles an expedition amid familial hiccoughs.

Part of Ancient History Hound · Ancient Blogger on Greece, Rome and antiquity for every level; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

This chapter traces Dardanus, Ilus, Priam, Aeacus and Telamon in what the title bills as a brief history of Troy, despite featuring Cassandra.

Part of Greek Mythology Retold

The final episode in this timeline series covers the generation of the First Trojan War, including Herakles and Hesione, King Laomedon, and Podarces, later Priam, and ties these events chronologically to the second, more popular Trojan War.

Part of Ancient History Hound · Ancient Blogger on Greece, Rome and antiquity for every level; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Ancient History Hound · Ancient Blogger on Greece, Rome and antiquity for every level; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Greek Mythology Retold · Janell Rhiannon on the Trojan War myths, from Helen to Odysseus

Part of Ancient History Hound

This recap of Troy, Fall of a City examines infanticide, jumping off cliffs with Aphrodite and negotiating with Achilles, with an inevitable nod to Mean Girls along the way.

Part of Ancient History Hound

This recap of Troy, Fall of a City talks about Helen's wedding and why hands should always be washed after a siege, following the show week by week.

Part of Ancient History Hound

This recap of Troy, Fall of a City considers awkward reality TV wedding show moments, and how many Greeks and Trojans really got the point, delivered with a run of puns.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

Listener Rick wonders whether there are other examples of gaining entry to a city using something like the Trojan horse, or other ingenious methods of getting inside a besieged city.

Part of Ancient History Hound

This recap of Troy, Fall of a City unpacks the dialogue between Priam and Achilles, what the chariots did, and wonders where the talking horse went.

Part of Ancient History Hound

This first recap of Troy, Fall of a City weighs the difficulty of adapting oral myth for the screen, alongside large flightless birds and a bad pun of his own.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Book 6 of the Iliad follows Hektor walking back into battle at Troy, the host's favorite book of the whole poem.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Book 4 of the Iliad finally reaches the fighting at Troy, after a few rousing speeches set the war story properly in motion.

Part of Mythology Explained

Since Lupita Nyong'o was cast as Helen of Troy for Nolan's Odyssey, discussion has turned to what Helen actually looked like according to Greek mythology.

This 2003 television miniseries retells the Trojan War from Homer's Iliad and the wider Trojan Cycle, shot entirely on location in Malta a year before the film Troy.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski examines Euripides' The Trojan Women and how Euripides uses and abuses Homeric form and theme to make a political argument meant to prevent the greatest political and military catastrophe in the history of Athens.

Part of Ancient Greece Today

With Ella Haselswerdt, Rosanna Bruno

Naomi discusses Euripides' Trojan Women, long considered the oldest anti-war play, with Professor Ella Haselswerdt of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Rosanna Bruno, illustrator of Euripides' Trojan Women: A Comic.

Part of The Rest Is History

Stephen Fry joins Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook as a guest on The Rest Is History to discuss his enduring fascination with the Greek myths.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Julia Kindt

Julia Kindt's The Trojan Horse and Other Stories (Cambridge UP, 2024) tells ten tales of mythical creatures, from the Trojan Horse and the Cyclops to the Minotaur.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Trojan Women is called pretty grim here, part of a career the episode says keeps getting darker, flagged with a warning for a grisly infanticide within its story.