Real
Ilione
Troy is the city of Asia Minor destroyed after the Homeric war, from which Aeneas departed to found the Roman race; Dante evokes it as the origin of the Virgilian hero.
Description
In the verses of the Commedia Troy appears as the city from which Aeneas, son of Anchises, departed after the burning of the proud Ilion, setting out on the journey that would bring him to Italy. Dante also recalls the Trojan furies alongside the Theban ones, as an exemplum of overwhelming passions, and places the city stretched out in ashes and reduced to caverns, an image of its ruin. The Dantesque evocation thus intertwines with the Virgilian memory of the Aeneid, which makes Troy the providential starting point of the history of Rome.
In the text
Linked verses
7 verses| Cantica | Canto | Verso | Testo | Open verse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inferno | Canto I | 74 | figliuol d’Anchise che venne di Troia, | Open verse |
| Inferno | Canto I | 75 | poi che ’l superbo Ilïón fu combusto. | Open verse |
| Inferno | Canto XXX | 22 | Ma né di Tebe furie né troiane | Open verse |
| Inferno | Canto XXX | 98 | l’altr’ è ’l falso Sinon greco di Troia: | Open verse |
| Inferno | Canto XXX | 114 | là ’ve del ver fosti a Troia richesto». | Open verse |
| Purgatory | Canto XII | 61 | Vedeva Troia in cenere e in caverne; | Open verse |
| Purgatory | Canto XII | 62 | o Ilïón, come te basso e vile | Open verse |