![]() Its fame survived solely through the epic of Homer. Even at the time of Alexander’s Persian campaign, little was known about the historic Trojan War that had taken place over 800 years prior. When the Macedonian conqueror crossed the Dardanelles into Asia, he built an altar to pay tribute to him. The warrior prince Achilles had been his idol since boyhood. The Abduction of Helen by Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto, Venetian, 1578 – 1579, Oil on canvas, via Museo del Prado with The Body of Patroclos Borne from the Battlefield by Diana Scultori, 16th c., via The Harvard Art MuseumsĪccording to legend, Alexander the Great kept two things under his pillow: a dagger and a copy of Homer’s Iliad.
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