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TROILUS , in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of See also:Priam (or See also:Apollo) and See also:Hecuba. His See also:father, when upbraiding his surviving sons for their cowardice, speaks in the Iliad (See also:xxiv. 257) of Troilus as already slain before the See also:action of the poem commences. According to a tradition See also:drawn from other See also:sources and adopted by See also:Virgil (Aen. i. 474), when a See also:mere boy he See also:fell by the See also:hand of See also:Achilles. In another See also:account, he was dragged to See also:death by his own horses. His death formed the subject of a lost tragedy by See also:Sophocles. There is no trace in classical writers of the See also:story of See also:Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, the materials for which were derived from See also:Chaucer's poem of the same name, See also:Lydgate's See also:History, Sege; and Destruction of See also:Troy, See also:Caxton's Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy (trans. from See also:Norman See also:French of Raoul le Fevre), See also:Chapman's See also:translation of See also:Homer, and perhaps a See also:play on the subject by See also:Dekker and Chattle. End of Article: TROILUSAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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