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Though it is no Iliad , all young spellers know the rhyme mnemonic
400); the city of King Priam, described in the Iliad and the Odyssey, is thought to be either Troy VI, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1275 b.c. , or its successor Troy VIIa.
Schliemann, who discovered the site of Troy, used the evidence in Homer's Iliad to determine his digging site, where any ruins had long since disappeared from view.
Raphael is well represented by a stately Veiled Woman (Hall 8, Jupiter), a classic Madonna of the Chair and Maddalena Doni (Hall 9, Saturn), deliberately imitating the pose of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, and Pregnant Women (Hall 10, Iliad).
Robert Fagles, a Princeton classicist, translated The Iliad in 1990 and sold an astonishing 140,000 paperback copies of his version.