The Iliad Project was set up in 2000 to create an oral retelling of the Trojan War, closely based on Homer's Iliad, for use in primary schools. Two of the UK's leading storytellers, Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden, were commissioned to create their own oral version of the story, War with Troy: The Story of Achilles. After detailed feedback from live performances in 3 primary schools the storytellers made substantial revisions to the story before recording the story on CD and trailling it in a further 5 primary schools (in Thetford and Barking & Dagenham).

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The Iliad Project built on research undertaken by CSCP in 1997/8 (the GRIPS Project) which examined the teaching of the Greeks and Romans in primary schools.