Epic poem · 1928

The Taking of Ilios

Prose translation by A. W. Mair

by Tryphiodorus

Translated by A. W. Mair (1928)

A short late-antique epic on the last night of the Trojan War, from the building of the wooden horse to the sacrifice of Polyxena.

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