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Archaeologists Found a Roman Mosaic in Britain That Tells a Lost Version of the Trojan War
At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...
An ancient historian at the University of Leicester has found that the Rutland mosaic presents a version of the Trojan War that differs from the story told in Homer’s Iliad. Researchers studying what ...
A study of a mosaic discovered on an English farm in 2020 shows that the Romans knew more than just Homer's version of the ...
New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...
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Stunningly preserved Roman-era mosaic in UK depicts Trojan War stories — but not the ones told by Homer
A newfound mosaic draws inspiration from "Phrygians," a play by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus that survives only in bits ...
In 2020, a farmer in England's Rutland county notified authorities about the possibility that there was a Roman villa located on his property. A subsequent investigation carried out by the University ...
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An 800-Year-Old Design Reveals a Lost Trojan Tale in a Roman Mosaic
Learn how a mosaic in Britain preserves a rare telling of the Trojan War once attributed to the playwright Aeschylus.
I have been studying Greek history for a very long time. In fact, I learned ancient and medieval Greek history at the University of Illinois and received a doctorate in modern Greek and European ...
74 x 104 cm. (29.1 x 40.9 in.) ...
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