| Page Views: 5,037 Last Visit to Troyes: October, 2005 | TROYES OR TROY by breughel - last update: Apr 13, 2007 |
No link between Troyes and Troy. | No Trojan horse in Troyes |
As a poor kid I have been obliged to study Latin and Greek during 6 years, 8 and 5 hours a week, so that when I drove in the town of Troyes, this name linked immediately my neurones to the Homeric Troy of the Iliad and Odyssey, not forgetting Virgil and the Aeneid.
To my deception I found no link between Troyes-en-Champagne and the legendary Troy.
The name of Troyes comes from the name of a Celtic tribe the Tricasses which settled there during the 2nd century BC. Under the Romans the name became Augustobona, later Tricassium and Trecae.
I had expected some mysterious, esoteric link between the legend and the present, something in the style of the "Da Vinci Code"; a Trojan horse hidden under the cathedral, the tomb of Achilles in the crypt of the St Pantaleon church, and descendants from Helene selling andoullette on the market.
Nothing! Nada! Rien! Just a guy called Hector who had found a Trojan horse in his computer. |
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wandeljp Tue Nov 4, 2008 19:29 UTC
Bonsoir Eddy, Merci de (re)passer par mes pages. Je continue à explorer mon environnement. Nous sommes passez par le Nord (Wormhout) Une page tragique de la 2ème guerre! Mais aussi un très beau patrimoine. Amitiés, JP | Nemorino Thu Nov 8, 2007 22:20 UTC
Looks like a lovely town, even though it doesn't have any connection to Troy and the Trojan Horse. | scottishvisitor Thu Oct 11, 2007 16:37 UTC
I liked the mix of architectural styles & the old town streets would be worth a wander for me | Jim_Eliason Sun Jul 8, 2007 10:54 UTC
great page! |
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