Troy having been destroyed beyond repair and the Greeks having been decimated, the survivors on both sides, led by their respective heroes Trojan Aeneas and Greek Odysseus, sail west over the same sea.
Accordingly the much later Roman account, the Aeneid, has both groups visiting some of the same locations, experienced the same difficulties and encountered the same strange creatures such as the Cyclops. Academics account for this by claiming Virgil plagiarized Homer’s epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, but the sea between Troy and Greece isn’t so large so the shipping lanes so numerous as to assume out of hand that the two groups wouldn’t run into the same remarkable circumstances.
Gathering scattered auspicious lines from Roman Virgil’s Aeneid:
The Trojan chief [Aeneas] appear’d in open sight,
August [godly] in visage, and serenely bright.
His mother goddess, with her hands divine
Had form’d his curling locks, and made his temples…
Like polish’d ivory…Or Parian marble, when enchas’d in gold [anticipating Caesar’s statues]…
goddess-born…the great Aeneas…from celestial seed your lineage‘“O hospitable Jove / Jupiter / Zeus! we thus invoke,
With solemn rites, thy sacred name and pow’r…To the Cumaean coast at length he came,
Where there is a resident prophetess of Apollo,
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