TROY (IMAGE)

University of Cincinnati

TROY

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University of Cincinnati Classics Professor Carl Blegen led excavations at Troy in the 1930s that identified nine periods of city reconstruction along with evidence of a great battle and fiery devastation suggestive of the sack of Troy mentioned in Homer's Iliad.

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UC Classics

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