The events of the Trojan War are written about in a number of works of Ancient Greek literature, including Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which is at least 2,500 years old. The cause of war is ...

These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and ... jumped onto a damaged ship to capture it. Argo the dog is missing! He was last spotted on a Greek battlefield.

His rape of Helen, Queen of Sparta, whom he carried off to Troy in a fast galley, brought the Greeks to the shores of Asia Minor in 1186 ships ... and the war was ended by a trick: Ulysses ...