The Olympics – ancient and modern
Traffic congestion, corruption, professional athletes and spiralling costs – despite our rose-tinted view of the ancient Olympics, they were not so dissimilar to our modern Games. Mary Beard on how the Olympic tradition has never quite lived up to its own ideals
Helen of Troy - Christoph Haussner
AENEAS Escapes The Fall of Troy with his father Anchises and son, Iulus. "And so we make our way along the pitch-dark paths, and I who had never flinched at the hurtling spears or swarming Greek assaults — now every stir of wind, every whisper of sound alarms me, anxious both for the child beside me and burden on my back." - Virgil's Aeneid, Book II (Peter Connolly/Robert Fagles/user: Aethon)
Odysseus-Troy(2004) Portrayed By Sean Bean