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7. Helen

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22nd November 201925th November 2019

Eric Stanford (1990) The myth of Helen of Troy has been told many times throughout history. She was the daughter of the Queen of Sparta and Zeus. Her marriage to…Read More >

5. Protesilaus

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22nd November 201925th November 2019

Eric Stanford (1990) Protesilaus was a soldier in the Trojan War whose fate was foretold by an oracle warning him of the death that awaited him as soon as he…Read More >

13. Bust of Percy Ure

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22nd November 201925th November 2019

Jannis Athene (1943) This bust shows the mature Percy Ure, University College Reading’s first Professor of Classics (from 1911), as he appeared in the 1940s. Percy Ure founded the Museum…Read More >

6. Memnon

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Eric Stanford (1990) Memnon was the son of a goddess and a prince, and king of Ethiopia, in Africa. Like Protesilaus [5] he fought in the Trojan War, where he…Read More >

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