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  #Thecreationofmanchester . NYE central Manchester "I think we see depicted here is "The Death of King Priam and the Fall of Troy". Priam is now slain by the soldiers of Greece before the Temple of Zeus, even while Cassandra stands above him rebuking the old king for ignoring her prophecies, and condemning the Greeks for their butchery. Behind him, trapped in what the Swedes call the mangata (a shimmering, roadlike reflection of the moon on water, here surely representing the final destination the gods have set him to tread upon so long ago) lies Priam's mortally wounded son, Prince Polites, who having sworn to defend his father but failed, even now in the throes of death reaches for his sword. The fighting spirit of Troy even now unbroken as it succumbs with it's dying breath. Beyond them all in the distance, so small now as to be overshadowed by the events surrounding her abduction but still physically central to the picture, is Helen of Troy; her legs crosse...