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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 ...
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 ...
A variant version of the Historia Brittonum makes Brutus the son of Ascanius's son Silvius, and traces his genealogy back to Ham, son of Noah. [8] Another chapter traces Brutus's genealogy differently, making him the great-grandson of the legendary Roman king Numa Pompilius , who was himself a son of Ascanius, and tracing his descent from Noah ...
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 ...
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 ...
The book is about "one of the most compelling paradoxes of history: the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests". [1] It details four major instances of government folly in human history: the Trojans' decision to move the Greek horse into their city, the failure of the Renaissance popes to address the factors that would lead to the Protestant Reformation in the early ...
Troy VI–VII was a major Late Bronze Age city consisting of a steep fortified citadel and a sprawling lower town below it. It was a thriving coastal city with a considerable population, equal in size to second-tier Hittite settlements.
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.