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Painting by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo showing crowds pulling the large wooden Trojan Horse into the city of Troy, with excited figures and ancient buildings in the background.
A large wooden Trojan horse is labeled with a blue box reading "FICTION" and an arrow pointing to it, illustrating myth versus reality in Homer's Odyssey.
Lucas Cranach the Elder: The Judgment of Paris The violation of Cassandra Fresco by Giambattista Tiepolo showing the Sacrifice of Iphigenia, with a distressed young woman at an altar, surrounded by figures in ancient robes, one holding her tenderly. Illustration in ancient Greek style showing Diomed in a chariot casting his spear at Ares, who stands with shield and spear over a fallen figure. Marble statue of Achilles seated and gazing at his raised heel, referencing the myth of Achilles' heel from Greek mythology. Trojan War
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Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.
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Painting by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo showing crowds pulling the large wooden Trojan Horse into the city of Troy, with excited figures and ancient buildings in the background.
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo: The Procession of the Trojan Horse into Troy Oil on canvas by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, c. 1760; in the National Gallery, London.

Trojan War

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Trojan War, legendary conflict between the early Greeks and the people of Troy in western Anatolia, dated by later Greek authors to the 12th or 13th century bce. The war, one of the key events in Greek mythology, stirred the imagination of the ancient Greeks more than any other event in their history and was celebrated in the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, as well as a number of other early works now lost,...

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