Troilus
alt=A helmeted figure emerges from behind a fountain, topped with two lions. That is being approached from the other side by an unarmoured rider. Below the horse is a setting sun. Painted underneath this scene are trees shown in different seasons of the year.|thumb|300px|right|Achilles (left) ambushing Troilus (on horseback, right). Etruscan art|Etruscan [[fresco, Tomb of the Bulls, Tarquinia, 530–520 BC.]]
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- The story in the ancient world
- The standard myth: the beautiful Troilus murdered
- Ancient literary sources supporting the standard myth
- Homer and the missing texts of the archaic and classical periods
- ''Alexandra''
- Other written sources
- Ancient art and artifact sources
- A variant myth: the boy-soldier overwhelmed
- Virgil and other Latin sources
- Greek writers in the boy-soldier tradition
- The story in the medieval and Renaissance eras
- The second Hector, wall of Troy
- Dares
- Description in medieval texts
- Knight and war leader
- Death
- The lover
- The story of Troilus and Cressida
- Benoît and Guido
- Boccaccio
- Chaucer and his successors
- Shakespeare and Dryden
- Modern versions
- Once more a man-boy
- Reinventing the love story
- See also
- Notes and references
- Annotated bibliography
- External links
alt=A helmeted figure emerges from behind a fountain, topped with two lions. That is being approached from the other side by an unarmoured rider. Below the horse is a setting sun. Painted underneath this scene are trees shown in different seasons of the year.|thumb|300px|right|Achilles (left) ambushing Troilus (on horseback, right). Etruscan art|Etruscan [[fresco, Tomb of the Bulls, Tarquinia, 530–520 BC.]]
Troilus ( or ; ; ) is a legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War. The first surviving reference to him is in Homer's Iliad, composed in the late 8th century BC.