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The movie troy takes place in the year of 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze Age. Two nations (Trojans and Greeks) begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband, Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that the Trojans took his wife, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the Trojans. Achilles at first doesn’t want to participate in the war, but later on makes on of the biggest blows to the Trojans by killing Hector, the price of Troy. The war had finally ended in 1240 B.C. It had ended when Greek hero Odysseus came fourth with the idea to make what was called the Trojan horse. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy. During the nighttime 30 Greek men emerged for the wooden horse and entered and destroyed the city of Troy, decisively ending the war. The mythic accuracy of the movie Troy does differ from the book more than its similar.

The movie troy came from many ideas from different books but mostly from the Iliad. It was written by Homer, a Greek poet, who made most of the records for the Trojan War. Even though most of the book was remade a lot making the story completely different from the book, the directors did seem to keep some important similarities in the movie. In both the movie and the book the need for Achilles by the Greek to participate in the war was almost identical. He was the bravest, handsomest, and greatest warrior of the army of Agamemnon in the Trojan War. Agamemnon had done everything in his power to get Achilles to fight in the war, but Achilles was still mad that Agamemnon took away Briseis; a woman captured and presented to Achilles during the Trojan War, and refused to fight. He didn’t fight again for the

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