This literary novel explores the passions and motivations of the protagonists and the events of the Trojan War without the machinations of imaginary gods drivin

Acclaimed author Margaret George tells the story of the legendary Greek woman whose face "launched a thousand ships" in this New York Times bestseller. The Troj

Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way th

This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema.

As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beau