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alt=Helen walking along a city walls, alone: two women stand in the background, looking down over the wall |thumb|Helen on the Walls of Troy (1865) by Frederic Leighton

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alt=Helen walking along a city walls, alone: two women stand in the background, looking down over the wall |thumb|Helen on the Walls of Troy (1865) by Frederic Leighton

Teichoscopy or teichoscopia (), meaning "viewing from the walls", is a recurring narrative strategy in ancient Greek literature. One famous instance of teichoscopy occurs in Homer's Iliad, Book 3, lines 121–244.

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