Trojan War
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The Trojan War was supposedly fought over the city of Troy in today's Turkey in the 12th century BC, and inspired several great epics, in particular, the Iliad and Odyssey and the Aeneid. While historians debate whether the Trojan War happened, it is among the best-known stories of the ancient Mediterranean and part of the founding myth of both ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.
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