Troy: everything you wanted to know
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The Troy Story From the First Century B.C.
Range coloner has asked whether we have any non greek, ancient sources that tell us about troy. The romans look back to troy as part of their founding moment. In the first century b c a poet called virgil wrote an epic poem in 12 books named after eneas. Mediaeval representations of the trojan story ultimately derive from virgil.
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