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Troy : Myth, City, IconPROSE Award for Excellence in Archaeology and Ancient History Finalist 2019. From the palaces of Homeric epic to the ancestral seat of Roman emperors, Troy in antiquity was a place couched in myth. But for nearly four millennia, Troy was also a living city, inhabited by real people. Troy today is therefore a site of major archaeological and historical significance. In the modern world, however, Troy has become as much a symbol as a site. From movies

and against the theory put forward by Sir William Ridgeway that it originated in performances at the tombs of dead heroes

φανατικός πολέμιος του γάμου και των δεσμεύσεων και λάτρης του ωραίου φύλου

τον αφήκα να εκδηλωθεί (ζώντας τα διάφορα γεγονότα και αντιδρώντας σ' αυτά) με τα ψυχικά μέσα που διαθέτω εγώ σήμερα και που ένας άνθρωπος

Cluentius' own mother

to siding with Sparta - like Thebes an oligarchy - to defeat Pericles' democratic Athens

There is frequent emphasis on the importance of the literary tradition

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until financial reasons oblige the family to move to Athens

Reading Latin

The commentary illustrates Apuleius' text as a densely constructed literary work and explains literary allusions as well as philosophical

Prose and verse alternate

On his journey he encounters all manner of perils