Cassandra, Hecuba's Daughter, is to be married to Agamemnon. While Hecuba has been lamenting the fate of her city and fellow Trojan Women, Cassandra advises to remain in good spirits as she has a ...

According to Aeschylus’s tragedy Agamemnon, it was the god Apollo who gifted Cassandra the power of prophecy – but he had an ulterior motive in mind. When she rejected him romantically ...

Long before Bing Crosby crooned “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” during World War II, we were entranced by songs of soldiers pining for home. But those earliest songs were rarely so sweet.

When, in 2018, Pat Barker published “The Silence of the Girls,” the first novel in her Women of Troy series, the popularity of fiction revisiting ancient Greek mythology was still in its infancy.