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Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art: Women, Agency, and the Trojan War

Anthony F. Mangieri

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The Trojan War begins and ends with the sacrifice of a virgin princess. The gruesome killing of a...

Don Troiani's American Battles: The Art of the Nation at War, 1754-1865

Don Troiani

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Goddess of Troy

P.C. Cast

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Erotic fantasy novel based on the mythology of the Trojan war. Two modern women are chosen by...

A Thousand Ships

Natalie Haynes

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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 One of the Guardian's and TLS's 'Best Books of...

Greek Mythology The Trojan War Retellings Literary Fiction

Age of Bronze: v. 1: A Thousand Ships

Eric Shanower

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Daring heroes, breathtaking women, betrayals, love and death--the most spectacular war story ever...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Troy (2004) in Movies

Mar 26, 2019

Troy (2004)

2004 | Action, Drama, History

7.0

(23 Ratings)

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Hollywood retelling of the tale of Troy is just a bit better than you might expect in pretty much every department. Trojan prince Paris steals Greek queen Helen, leading to... does no-one read the Iliad any more? There's a lot of bother, let's put it that way.

Whole thing is handled in broad strokes and there are quite a few divergences from the traditional legend (the Trojan war lasts about a fortnight, not ten years, and you can forget any notion of Brad Pitt's Achilles being into, er, Greek-style romance, if you know what I mean), but overall this is fun, rousing stuff. Looking back on it now the various bits of political subtext not-so-subtly inserted into the film seem amusingly quaint more than anything else. A well-staged, classy blockbuster.