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‘An Iliad’: An ancient war story for our time

‘An Iliad’: An ancient war story for our time | Archaeology News | Scoop.it

At Studio Theatre, the retelling of Homer’s “The Iliad” as a one-man play explores the power of rage.

 

The Trojan War took 10 years to fight and had its origins, years before, on the day Zeus set his sights on a pretty young thing, turned himself into a swan, knocked her up and fathered a half-divine, half-human daughter named Helen, the girl with the ship-launching face. But the Iliad doesn’t start there. Its early pages take readers to the final few weeks of combat.

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This is a remarkable review of a new telling of the story, with resonance in the new age we are in

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Statues of 5th dynasty top officials discovered in Abusir - Ahram Online

Statues of 5th dynasty top officials discovered in Abusir - Ahram Online | Archaeology News | Scoop.it
Statues of 5th dynasty top officials discovered in AbusirAhram OnlineDuring routine excavations in Abusir South, 30km north of Giza plateau, Czech excavators from the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Charles University in Prague, unearthed a...

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