Troilus

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Contents

The story in the ancient world
The standard myth: the beautiful Troilus murdered
Ancient literary sources supporting the standard myth
Homer and the missing texts of the archaic and classical periods
''Alexandra''
Other written sources
Ancient art and artifact sources
A variant myth: the boy-soldier overwhelmed
Virgil and other Latin sources
Greek writers in the boy-soldier tradition
The story in the medieval and Renaissance eras
The second Hector, wall of Troy
Dares
Description in medieval texts
Knight and war leader
Death
The lover
The story of Troilus and Cressida
Benoît and Guido
Boccaccio
Chaucer and his successors
Shakespeare and Dryden
Modern versions
Once more a man-boy
Reinventing the love story
See also
Notes and references
Annotated bibliography
External links

Troilus ( or ; ; ) is a legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War. The first surviving reference to him is in Homer's Iliad, composed in the late 8th century BC.

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