Venezia prima di Venezia : Migranti da Troia: un "racconto di nascita" della città

Just because Venice wants herself free from the Past, the main-storming legend on her origins - the heroic “cives Romani” who escape the advance of the barbarians, retiring to Rivoaltus - is only one of the many 'birth tales' of the city. Another of these stories has to do with a travel of migrants who escape the ruin of Troy. Literary and archaeological sources testify that the Venice Lagoon has always been a fertile ground for meetings between cultures, exchanges and trade: in the Lagoon, the traces of Troy's exiles cross with the pre-existing ones of the Mycenaean who shall be their winners. But also in the legends and in the folk details, repeated source by source up to the threshold of the modernity, traces of a Trojan legacy can be found in the ‘birth tale’ of the city. In fact, it is the Trojans who conquer the challenge of history: taking their roots elsewhere and giving other names to their own deities, the Trojans exiled from their homeland reinvent Troy in the cities that will be Rome and Venice.