cannot live.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt. Power‚ honor and respect‚ or simply love by who ever who choose. In the story of the Trojan war Paris clearly chose love. Little did he know that it would spark rage between the Greeks and the mighty people of Troy. Helen‚ the wife of King Menelaus‚ was put under a spell by the mighty Aphrodite and was practically forced to go with the Trojan prince Paris. Aphrodite cast the spell because Paris was ask to chose who was the prettiest in all of the land. In order
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It is a brilliant story of love and war produced in 2004. My reason for choosing this film is because of the controversy over what is myth and what is fact regarding the fall of Troy. I find the movie so majestic yet the timeframe of the Iliad was around 1250 B.C. when it doesn’t seem plausible that everything could be so miraculous. The importance of this film is in regards to the city of Troy‚ the alliances of the Greeks‚ and the reasoning behind the war in itself. It was made to capture the
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prevents Achilles from abandoning all reason and persuades him to cut Agamemnon with words and insults rather than his sword 2. Book VI a. What misfortune did Andromache suffer from Achilles? * Andromache ’s father and brothers were killed by Achilleswhen he captured Thebe during the Trojan War b. Why is Andromache called “Hector’s precious wife? * She is precious to Hector because he loves her. She is the mother of his son who is still just a baby. She is not like the other women who are hiding
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Helen back as his wife. Achilles Troy: In the movie Achilles was killed in the battle at troy. This totally changes the ending and makes the Greeks seem that much more reliant on Achilles. Iliad: In the Iliad‚ Achilles dies before the Trojan horse ever enters the city. This proves that Greece can still hold their own. Achilles son was actually the one who fought in the battle at troy. Paris Troy: In the movie Paris lives through the battle and it is portrayed that he gets
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Odysseus’ has been missing for ten years in the beginning of Book 1. It has been ten years since the Trojan War‚ which is where we left off in the Illiad. We find out that he has been with the goddess Calypso on the island of Ogygia. She has fallen in love with him and he is not aloud to leave. Odysseus’ goal is to return home to his wife and son. All he wants is to get back to them because he has left his son who was young when he left. One of his ideals is to be there for his family because he
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with the Trojan Horse being found by the Trojans and ending with Troy being sacked had lacked effectiveness. This may be due to insufficient details delivered throughout the whole movie. It may be a disappointment if one decides to look at the accuracy of the movie’s depiction of the stories of Homer’s The Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid. Both poems are known to be accountable written sources that go way back many centuries ago‚ having described the Trojan Horse and the events of the Trojan War. Even an
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The Trojan War: Myth or Reality? “Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle‚ but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter”. This quotation from Homer’s The Iliad comes from Hector‚ the strongest and longest standing trojan fighter‚ as he dies when fighting in the Trojan War. He speaks his desire to be remembered and praised as a hero‚ which Homer eventually made possible. Everyone has heard of the Trojan War‚ but not everyone agrees on whether it truly
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TROJAN HORSE VIRUS By: Kayla Adams Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 2 DEFINITON‚ HISTORY..................................................................................................................................... 3 PURPOSE‚ HOW TROJAN HORSE WORKS ............................................................................................
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Integrated Montessori Center SY: 2013-2014 Book Report of The Trojan Wars Submitted by: Natasha Beatriz Ancheta III- Radon Submitted to: Teacher Orlando C. Pascual I. Introduction a. Biography of the Author Edith Hamilton was a well-known educator and author. She is recognized as the “greatest woman Classicist”. She was sixty-two years old when The Greek Way‚ her first book‚ was published in the year 1930. Hamilton had not yet been to Greece and was only writing about Greek mythology through
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The Trojan War The Trojan War was a very important part of the Greeks’ history. There are many myths and legends about the trojan War. In the Iliad‚ it describes certain events in the final year of the war. According to legend‚ the Trojan War lasted 10 years‚ until Greece defeated Troy. Many of ancient Greek stories talk about the Trojan War‚ particularly Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey. Many scholars believe the legend is based on a real war of the mid-1200’s B.C.’s. People have
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