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Padua and Troy
Every city needs a story - and Padua has a story that matches up with the greatest of them, tracing its founding to Antenor, a refugee from the city of Troy, thereby establishing the founding date of 1184 BC, the traditional date of the fall of Troy. The Trojan War was the biggest event of the ancient period - the generic time we think of as “Antiquity”, or what we think of when we hear “Greece and Rome”. Even today we know the phrase, “the face that launched a thousand ship

Rick Bessey
Oct 19, 20202 min read
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