
History’s greatest mysteries: was the Trojan War fact or fiction?
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The Legend of the Trojan War
i was joined by the award winning author and classicist daisy dunn. We know the trojan war mainly from the epics of homer, so the iliad and its sequel, the odyssey. They tell this fantastic story of the greeks invading troy in order to take revenge, or get back a helen. So there's deafinly, a mythical element to the story that we have. You've got the gods very much ere taking sides on the battlefield. And arsidy on.
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