A pacifist allegory by Jean Giraudoux, which was translated by Christopher Fry asThe Tiger at the Gates, is set in this city.
One poem titled for this place praises "nobleness made simple as a fire" and "beauty like atightened bow" in a woman who "would have hurled the little streets upon the great." The narratorof another poem saw a "thirsty dove in the glowing fields" of this city, which he compares toWashington D.C. A pacifist allegory by Jean Giraudoux, which was translated by Christopher Fry asThe Tiger at the Gates, is set in this city. Another poem describes its (*) "broken wall, the burning roofand tower." Boccaccio's poem Il Filostrato provided the model for a Chaucer poem set in this city, whichin turn inspired Shakespeare's play about the doomed lovers Troilus and Cressida. For 10 points, name thiscity which is infiltrated by a hollow wooden horse in Homer's Iliad.
One poem titled for this place praises "nobleness made simple as a fire" and "beauty like atightened bow" in a woman who "would have hurled the little streets upon the great."
Troy