While Helen may have had the face that launched a thousand ships, the origins of the Trojan War are much more complex than an ...

Schliemann believed he had found the body of the mythical king Agamemnon, who led the Achaean (Greek) siege of Troy in Homer's "Iliad” (he is also mentioned in Homer's "Odyssey" and features in ...

The Trojan War that started over a lost lover ... Menelaus convinced his brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, to travel to Troy to retrieve Helen. The pair were joined by Odysseus, Nestor ...

Source of Information: Principally the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems by blind Homer, the greatest poet of classical antiquity and the greatest war ... by Agamemnon of Mycenae (“King ...

Following a successful coastal raid, the Greek king Agamemnon chooses as his personal ... the first thing to remember is that the Trojan War was ignited by a monumental case of injured dignity ...

Trojan prince Paris absconds with Helen, wife of Spartan king Menelaus, sparking an all-out war as the massed armies of Greece, led by Menelaus' brother, Mycenaean king Agamemnon, undertake a ...