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Historia destructionis Troiae ('History of the destruction of Troy'), also called Historia Troiana, is a Latin prose narrative written by Guido delle Colonne, a Sicilian author, in the late 13th century. Its main source was the Old French verse romance by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Roman de Troie. The author claims that the bulk of the work was ...
Odysseus (Ulysses) discovers Achilles dressed as a woman and hiding among the princesses at the royal court of Skyros. A late Roman mosaic from La Olmeda, Spain, 4th–5th centuries AD. Since Menelaus's wedding, Odysseus had married Penelope and fathered a son, Telemachus. In order to avoid the war, he feigned madness and sowed his fields with ...
Published in his Voyage de la Troade, it was the most commonly proposed location for almost a century. [31] In 1822, the Scottish journalist Charles Maclaren was the first to identify with confidence the position of the city as it is now known. [32] [33] The first excavations at the site were trenches by British civil engineer John Brunton in ...
LA CASA DE LA TROYA ESTUDIANTINA OBRA PREMIADA POR LA REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA (SEXAGÉSIMA QUINTA EDICIÓN) Date: 1943 (this 65th edition) [1915] Source: Librería "GALÍ" (Casa fundada en 1872) Rúa del Villar, 66. SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA Imprenta - Editorial Moret - Galera, 48 - Teléfono 1520 - La Coruña Unión Taquigráfica Valenciana ...
With the birth of the prince Paris of Troy, the princess Cassandra has a prophecy that Paris would be the cause of the destruction of their city. Their father, the king Priam, leaves Paris to Mount Ida, where he is raised by the shepherd Agelaus.
The Fall of Troy (Italian: La caduta di Troia) is a 1911 Italian silent short film directed by Giovanni Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto. [1] It is the first known cinematographic adaptation of Homer's epic poem, the Iliad.
The Trojan Horse (Italian: La guerra di Troia) is a 1961 Italian peplum film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The film focuses primarily on the exploits of the Trojan hero Aeneas during this time. The film was directed by Giorgio Ferroni and stars Steve Reeves as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus.
Carlo Troya (also spelled Troja; 7 June 1784 – 28 July 1858) was a historian and politician who served as Prime Minister of the Two Sicilies from 3 April 1848 until 15 May 1848. Politically, he was a liberal Neo-Guelph who supported Italian unification .