be applied throughout the Mediterranean as was once done from Latium into all Italy. Each poem narrates only a part of the war. In later ages playwrights, historians, and other intellectuals would create works inspired by the Trojan War. It was foretold that he would either die of old age after an uneventful life, or die young in a battlefield and gain immortality through poetry. However this was reversed when Julian was killed in battle in 363. The last Olympic Games are believed to have been held in 393. Shen Kuo soon impressed Wang Anshi with his skills and abilities as an administrator and government agent. In 1072, Shen was sent to supervise Wang's program of surveying the building of silt deposits in the Bian Canal outside the