"Troy"

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This paper discusses how although Wolfgang Petersen's 2004 movie, "Troy" varied from the legendary story of the Trojan War, it did however, keep true to several facts of the saga. In particular, it looks at how a deviation of the movie is the exclusion of the gods and goddesses with an emphasis placed on the warriors instead. It also discusses how, rather than the approach as a mythological epic, the film takes on a realism as if all the characters and events are true to life.

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"Another part of the legend that the movie left out was Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia, to the goddess Artemis, in order to obtain favorable winds for the voyage to Troy (Judgement pp). And according to legend, the gods were basically the reason the war lasted ten years. They took great interest. Hera and Athena still resented Paris for not giving them the Apple of Discord, so in turn they helped the Greeks, while Aphrodite helped the Trojans, as did Zeus, and Eris and her brother Ares helped both sides simply because they loved war (Judgement pp). None of this was included in the movie.
Moreover, only Aeneas, the son of Aphrodite and a Trojan royal named Anchises escaped Troy (Judgement pp)."

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