Imagine your teacher shows you a box. Inside, there's a broken cup, a tiny statue of an animal, and a few stones arranged in a circle. "These belong to people who lived 4000 years ago," she says. "Now tell me what they believed in."

Ned Kelly vs an ancient Spartan hoplite. Whose armour would you prefer to fight in?

In the Iliad, even the king of the gods can't overrule the scales of fate.

The very first word of the Iliad, in the original Greek, is "wrath."

To an ancient Greek warrior, being forgotten was worse than dying.