Federico Barrocci’s 1598 painting Aeneas’ Flight from Troy Troy IX (ca. 85 B.C.-500 A.D.) In 85 B.C., the Roman general Gaius Flavius Fimbra sacked Troy, destroying much of the city.

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast ... Agamemnon, Hector, and Aeneas remain household names even today. The Trojan War and its events provide the background for two ...

Rome paraded its conquest of Greece as revenge for the burning of Troy, adopting the Trojan Aeneas as one of the founders of Rome. In the time of the empire, Roman emperors grandly embellished ...