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Part of the book: Engaging with Troy

Edited by Francesca Rayner and Janice Valls-Russell

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Abstract.  On a large funerary pithos dated to around 675 BCE from the island of Mykonos, a series of panels shows the women of Troy taken captive and their children slain before their eyes. The experiences of the captive Trojan women were already emblematic of wartime suffering. The lessons taught by the Trojan War have changed with each new era of history, and yet today, no less than in the seventh century BCE, we look to the legendary past in an attempt to make sense of present conflict.

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