Today's installment concludes Fall of Troy,our selection from History of Greece by George Grote published in 1846. For works benefiting from the

Through these stories every town and village throughout Greek lands could attach directly to the epic and to the common identity.Continuing Fall of

Other versions were afterward started, forming a sort of compromise between Homer and Stesichorus, admitting that Helen had never really been at Troy,

The sound revealed that the horse was hollow, but the Trojans heeded not this warning of possible fraud.Continuing Fall of Troy,our selection from

Homer breaks off with the burial of Hector, whose body has just been ransomed by the disconsolate Priam; while the lost poem of Arctinus, entitled the

In these expeditions the Grecian army consumed nine years, during which the subdued Trojans dared not give battle without their walls for fear of

Menelaus, informed by Iris in Crete of the perfidious return made by Paris for his hospitality, hastened home in grief and indignation to consult with