Modern scholarship dates the Trojan War to sometime between 1280 and 1184 BCE. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, epic poems that tell of what happened during the war and immediately afterwards, were first written down between 750 and 700 BCE. The traditional date for the founding of Rome was 753 BCE. But Ovid wrote a lovely nation-glorifying myth saying Aeneas, prince and refugee of the Trojan War, founded Rome. Unless one guy lived four hundred plus years, Ovid seriously miscalculated.
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