Greeks and Troyan War

Greeks and Troyan war.

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Greeks and the Troyan War

comparison between the book and the movie

The story of the Trojan War the Bronze Age conflict between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece straddles the history and mythology of ancient Greece and inspired the greatest writers of antiquity, from Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles to Virgil. Since the 19th century rediscovery of the site of Troy in what is now western Turkey, archaeologists have uncovered increasing evidence of a kingdom that peaked and may have been destroyed around 1,180 B.C. perhaps forming the basis for the tales recounted by Homer some 400 years later in the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey.”

Both stories are about the same. It's easier and funnier to see the movie, but it misses a lot of details and history that comes in the book. With both stories you can get a more complete idea of what it was all about and understand it better, cause as the Iliad is written with some rare format, like a poem, it's more difficult to understand. The movie is mostly about the Trojan war, but the Iliad tells the whole story, like the complete reason why some characters acted the way they did and why different events happened.

In the beginning of the movie we see Helen running away with Paris, prince of Troy. But in the iliad it explains why does that happens. (Afrodite had a previous discussion with Hera and another goddesses about determinating who was the most beautiful goddesses, as the can't get to a result they call Paris to determine the winner, and he chooses Afrodite in exchange of the most beautiful woman on earth , whom was Helen). So prince Paris wasn't as blind and full as it seems in the movie, the whole main reason wasn't just love, but a deal with the Gods.

In my opinion is really difficult to understand the complete story, bacause there are so many characters that interact in it (kings, queens, soldiers, gods, goddess, priests, etc). They all talk to all, they all have different purposes and as I'm not used to those Ancient Greek names, it's a little bit harder. Although with all the reading, watching and investigation I did it's a facinating theme to know and talk about.

What I understood about the story is that at the begging there's a priest called Krises whom daughter was kidnaped by the king Agamenon as a reward. Krises goes where the king Agamenon and asks him to give his girl back, but he refuses.

Krises then prays to the god Apollo to make something and have mercy so he can get her daughter back. Apollo listens to him and looses a plague in Greece which consisted of arrows falling from the sky that killed a lot of greeks and animals that belonged to them for 9 days. On the tenth

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