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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 ...
The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes (1664) by Jan de Bray. The Achaean forces first gathered at Aulis. All the suitors sent their forces except King Cinyras of Cyprus. Though he sent breastplates to Agamemnon and promised to send 50 ships, he sent only one real ship, led by the son of Mygdalion, and 49 ships made of clay ...
The second section breaks from the annalistic form of the first and appears to be quite fragmentary. It contains two subheadings, Dedicatio Ecclesiae S. Vincentii de Troya ('Dedication of the Church of St Vincent of Troia') and Corrigia Troyana. Each subsection contains a summary of a document, followed by information drawn from an annalistic ...
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 ...
Octomom Natalie Suleman is ready to bring her story to the screen. The 49-year-old single mom of 14 — who made history as the first person to give birth to surviving octuplets in 2009 — is the ...
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.
José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella GE (24 April 1903 – 20 November 1936), often referred to simply as José Antonio, was a Spanish fascist [n. 1] politician who founded the Falange Española ("Spanish Phalanx"), later Falange Española de las JONS.