The ancient city of Troy is identified as the archaeological site at Hisarlik. But how do we really know that it was there?

An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Cassandra, Odysseus…and the wooden horse.

Rome paraded its conquest of Greece as revenge for the burning of Troy, adopting the Trojan Aeneas as one of the founders of Rome. In the time of the empire, Roman emperors grandly embellished ...