Homer’s celebration of the fall of Troy was the bible of Greece and the rebuilt city would forever be defined by her forebear’s glorious defeat.

Xerxes visited a modest New Troy on his way to conquer Greece. He would honor Priam, as an Asian king defeated…

In The Fall of Troy, Peter Ackroyd goes to windy Troy in the mid nineteenth century, its ruins crudely exposed to its omen-filled plain. He draws the real Schliemann, Troy’s archeologist, as Obermann, a loud, portly German Romantic digging for the…

To be educated meant knowing Homer, quoting Homer. At least in the east. For Christians too. He was simply the Poet.

And his books became inerrant long before the Christian or Jewish scriptures. Right back in the second century BC. Back…

For his new Rome, Constantine so nearly picked old Troy …

Having, therefore, discovered a convenient site between Troas and old Ilium, he there accordingly laid a foundation, and built part of a wall to a considerable height, which may still…

Before Constantine came Byzas. One legend ran (there were others) …

There was once a king called Byzas who consulted the oracle at Delphi on where to settle his people.

“Settle opposite the land of the blind”, she said.

Byzas knew nothing of…