Charles Mee’s plays are like literary Frankensteins. He rips apart ancient Greek tragedies, stitches in snippets from blogs, the evening news and Kelly Clarkson songs, then jolts them with his own prose until they’re ready to stagger, or rather dance, on Off Broadway stages. Mr....

Director Tina Landau knows how to do bold.Her take on Charles Mee's "Iphigenia 2.0" is aggressive, in-your-face theatrical, a startling, ambitious re-examination of the Euripides classic done in modern dress and sporting an up-to-the-minute sensibility that suggests today's Iraq conflict as much as it does...

It was tough enough in antiquity to be a sorceress, let alone the planet's most beautiful woman. In the postmodern world, you have to compete for attention with directors, too.Strauss' "Die Aegyptische Helena" ("The Egyptian Helen") returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday night for...

The British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, whose Painted Sculpture exhibition is on view at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, has long enjoyed a highly successful career on both sides of the Atlantic. It's a career that began in England in 1951 when Mr. Caro (as he then...

Archaeologists in recent years have unearthed evidence that the Trojan War, depicted in Homer's The Iliad, actually took place during the late Bronze Age. An overview of these archaeological investigations describes the methods used to extract the artifacts, the findings from those artifacts, and how those findings support Homer's writings.

Various Archaeologists have made their own contribution to our knowledge of Troy and the possible occurrence of the Trojan War. Schliemann is one such archaeologist who made a significant contribution to our knowledge of Troy. Dörpfeld was another important contributor to the story of Troy, and the possibility of the Trojan War. Carl Blegen's work at Troy has contributed significantly to the information we have.

Examines the Trojan War from a historical perspective. Examines supporting evidence and analyzes Homer's text for historical accuracy.