"Troy": A Mythical Remake

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This paper reviews the mythic film "Troy" and compares it to Homer's "The Iliad", upon which it is loosely based. The paper discusses how the film bring to life mythical heroes and villains in a the great tale of love, war, loyalty, deception, honor, victory and defeat. The paper traces the love story between the beautiful Helen of Troy, who was originally the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta and Prince Paris of Troy, who secretly takes Helen home to Troy with him after visiting King Menelaus in Sparta. The paper also asserts that while the movie is not a verbatim account of the book, it is true to its essential nature as a long, vivid, colorful tale about war and peace, and about human pride and foibles.

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"The factuality of the events told within the Iliad itself remains debatable. For instance, historians still do not know if there really was a great Trojan war of the sort described in the Iliad, , or, if so, if such a war was really about love, jealousy, and revenge, or perhaps more likely in actuality, about commerce. The Trojan War, if it happened at all, may have just used the excuse of Helen's and Paris's illicit love to restart the same tired conflict between Troy and Mycenae Greece, after a brief respite. Based on historical, anthropological, and other research, there was in fact some sort of Trojan-Greek conflict at this time. Therefore, he Trojan War, as we know it through the Iliad, was not simply a figment of a blind man's rich poetic imagination."

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