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The Taliban's Trojan horse: What really happened after Afghanistan's opium ban

Wars have been fought over land, over succession, over a woman said to have launched a thousand ships toward Troy. Opium got its own war twice, in 1839 and again in 1856, but not the kind that name suggests. Britain went to war for the right to keep selling opium…

The Times of India

In The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan worries the end of politeness will destroy civilisation. I fear he’s right

Since I saw the movie, I have found it difficult not to see Trojan horses everywhere. We live now in a state of perpetual distrustfulness

The Guardian - AU

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey reveals a darker, less triumphant heroism

Warning: this review contains spoilers for The Odyssey.

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Follow in the footsteps of The Odyssey in Türkiye and Italy on this luxurious new tour

Priced at €88,000 per person, travellers will sail on a private yacht around islands featured in the Homeric epic and visit historic sites like the ancient city of Troy.

Euronews

'The Odyssey' Ending Explained: How Christopher Nolan’s Most Crucial Change Redefines The Whole Story

'The Odyssey' makes one major change to the Homeric epic that recontextualizes the entire story. But it's not the one you think.

Inverse

The Odyssey ending explained: Who dies, who becomes king, and who is Athena?

Breaking down the epic that is The Odyssey

Total Film

How controlling (and tolling) a narrow waterway near ancient Troy changed history

Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated adaptation of The Odyssey officially opened in theatres this week. It retells Homer’s ancient epic of Odysseus’ journey home from the Trojan war.

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Archaeologists found a real ancient city in Turkey that may have inspired the story of Troy, but there is still no proof that the Trojan War happened

Recent archaeological excavations at Hisarlik in Turkey have definitively established the historical site of ancient Troy. Findings from these digs include settlements from the Bronze Age, alongside evidence of fire and arrowheads, hinting at possible conflicts in the area. Hittite texts referencing Wilusa, thought to be Troy, further suggest a…

The Times of India

‘More postmodern than ancient’: why the Odyssey is everywhere, from Oz to Westeros

Christopher Nolan’s take on the Odyssey is set to break box-office records. What made the director so determined to adapt the ancient Greek epic? And why does a poem from 600BC hold a vice-like grip on pop culture?

The Guardian - UK

The Odyssey beginner's guide: a complete roundup of the epic poem, how it's connected to the Iliad, and each character explained

Get up to speed on the Odyssey poem and the Trojan War before the Christopher Nolan movie arrives

Total Film

On This Day in History, June 10: Troy falls, Italy enters WWII, Jurassic Park premieres, Thatcher wins for 3rd time, FIFA World Cup opens and other key events

On This Day in History, June 10 witnessed events that ranged from the legendary destruction of Troy and the birth of Gothic architecture to major developments during the Second World War and the opening of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The date also saw milestones in aviation,…

The Economic Times

Men’s College World Series: One Statistic That Defines Each Remaining Team

The festivities begin Friday in Omaha.

Sports Illustrated

The ancient city of Troy was rebuilt over itself for more than 4,000 years

The landscape around Troy does not immediately suggest a single ancient city preserved in isolation. The ground rises gradually at Hisarlık, a mound shaped less by nature than by repeated human occupation. Stone walls appear beside broken foundations from entirely different eras. Sections of the Earth contain traces of settlements…

The Times of India

Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad?

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad. It wasn’t placed beside the body, but inside the mummy’s abdomen. But the real surprise isn’t just where the fragment was found. It’s how it got there. To understand, we must go back –…

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International Business Times UK

TCS Bets Big On 'Physical AI' With New Michigan Centre As Race To Automate Manufacturing Heats Up

Tata Consultancy Services unveils its seventh Gemini Experience Centre in Troy, Michigan, focusing on Physical AI for manufacturing, in collaboration with Google Cloud.

Reason

Epstein Files, Keeping Helen of Troy Hot, and Stolen Land

Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss the outrages of the week, including Jeffrey Epstein, Billie Eilish, and DoorDash.

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Rethinking Troy: how years of careful peace, not epic war, shaped this bronze age city

Imagine a city that thrived for thousands of years, its streets alive with workshops, markets and the laughter of children, yet that is remembered for a single night of fire. That city is Troy.

The Conversation

A new Australian production of Troy is bold, uncompromising theatre for our times

The story of Troy has been told for three millennia. Capricious deities, military clashes, legendary heroes and a famous wooden horse – a gift to the city that ultimately brings about its ruination – the mythology offers timeless themes of hubris, betrayal, and the devastating cost of war.

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The legend of Troy explained

The Trojan War is a legend that sprang from a distant memory of a real Greek incursion into the Bronze Age city of Troy (in modern day Türkiye). This may have taken the form of annual piracy raids and/or encounters based on control of the Aegean Sea.

The Conversation

Troy’s fall was partly due to environmental strain – and it holds lessons for today

Sometimes the seeds of collapse are sown in the very soil of prosperity. Beneath the ancient city of Troy’s shining walls, the earth quietly cracked under the weight of its ambition.

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NFL Players from Troy HS (Troy, OH)

An updated list of all NFL Players from Troy High School in Troy, Ohio.

The Independent UK

Eric Bana: ‘I’m happy to be killed off in something – it’s just more interesting’

INTERVIEW: The Australian star of ‘Chopper’ and ‘Troy’ speaks to Adam White about his new Netflix mystery ‘Untamed’, the failures of ‘Hulk’, and the frustrating controversy that surrounded his Steven Spielberg film ‘Munich’

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The Return: how each new retelling of The Odyssey opens up the worlds of the women in this epic

Waves crash across Ithaca’s rocky shore. “The city of Troy has fallen,” we are told, as the shuttle on Penelope’s loom flickers across the screen. “On the island of Ithaca, Queen Penelope still longs for the return of her husband Odysseus.” The camera then cuts to the wreckage of a…

The Guardian - UK

‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey

The actor and director on why The Return took 30 years to make, their joy at persuading Juliette Binoche to join them – and the punishing regime that earned Fiennes his battle-scarred physique

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Uncorking the past: new analysis of Troy findings rewrites the story of wine in the early bronze age

Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research has established for the first time. Colleagues at the University of Tübingen and I have discovered that wine was also enjoyed by the common folk, independent of upper-class…

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