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Troy between Greece and Rome : local tradition and imperial power /

"Troy linked Greece and Rome. It was at once the subject of the greatest of Greek poems and the mother city of the Romans. It gave the Romans a place in the mythical past of the Greeks, it gave Greeks a way of approaching Rome, and it gave the emperor Augustus, descendant of Aeneas, a suitably...

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Main Author: Erskine, Andrew.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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