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According to later calculations by Eratosthenes of Cyrene (circa 275-194 B.C.E.), this year is the traditional date for the fall of Troy to the Achaean Greeks, as related in Homer's Iliad. (Modern archaeologists tend to equate the event with the burning of level VIIa at Troy, datable to the latter half of the thirteenth century B.C.E.)
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