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Homer

The Ancients

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The Iliad and the Trojan War

Troy is just off the west coast of Turkey it's near the Hellespont. Most scholars would agree that this was the sight of ancient Troy. Achilles is so offended by Agamemnon sort of lauding himself over him in his way that he decides to quit from the fighting. Homer strives to show a big difference between Greeks overall being more organized as an army and Trojans are shown to be babbling in their foreign tongue.

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