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"...A small minority of contemporary writers argue that Homeric Troy was not in Anatolia, but located elsewhere: England,[11] Croatia, and Scandinavia have been proposed. These theories have not been accepted by mainstream scholars."
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Είναι τόσο συγκλονιστικά τα 2 έπη Ιλιάδας και Οδύσσειας που πάντα μάγευαν τους δυτικούς. Οι ρωμαίοι και οι φράγκοι ευγενείς και βασιλείς ισχυρίζονταν οτι αντλούσαν την καταγωγή τους απο τον Πρίαμο και τους λοιπούς τρώες...
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"Such was the fame of the Epic Cycle in Roman and medieval times that it was built upon to provide a starting point for various founding myths of national origins. The progenitor of all of them is undoubtedly that promulgated by Virgil in the Aeneid, tracing the ancestry of the founders of Rome, more specifically the Julio-Claudian dynasty, to the Trojan prince Aeneas. The heroes of Troy, both those noted in the epic texts or those purpose-invented, continued to perform the role of founder for the nations of Early Medieval Europe.[18] Denys Hay noted the widespread adoption of Trojan forebears as an authentication of national status, in Europe: the Emergence of an Idea (Edinburgh 1957). The Roman de Troie was common cultural ground for European governing classes,[19] for whom a Trojan pedigree was gloriously ancient, and it established the successor-kingdoms of which they were direct heirs as equals of the Romans. A Trojan pedigree justified the occupation of parts of Rome's erstwhile territories (Huppert 1965).
The Franks filled the lacunae of their legendary origins with Trojan and pseudo-Trojan names; in Fredegar's seventh-century chronicle of Frankish history, Priam appears as the first king of the Franks.[20] The Trojan origin of Franks and France was such an established article of faith that in 1714 the learned Nicolas Fréret was Bastilled for showing through historical criticism that the Franks had been Germanic, a sore point counter to Valois and Bourbon propaganda.[21]
Similarly Geoffrey of Monmouth (and earlier works such as Historia Brittonum attributed to monastary writer Nennius) traces the legendary Kings of the Britons to a supposed descendant of Aeneas called Brutus. Snorri Sturluson, in the Prologue to his Prose Edda, converts several half-remembered characters from Troy into characters from Norse mythology, and refers to them having made a journey across Europe towards Scandinavia, setting up kingdoms as they went..."
