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In Search of the Trojan War is a six-part BBC TV documentary series written and presented by Michael Wood, first broadcast in 1985 on BBC2. It examines the extent to which historical and archeological evidence matches the tale of the Trojan War as recounted by Homer in The Iliad. [1]
Poetry based on the Iliad (1 C, 10 P) Television shows based on the Iliad (2 P) * Modern adaptations of the Iliad (7 P) Pages in category "Works based on the Iliad"
She appears in Book 3, Book 6 and Book 24, often lamenting her (indirect) involvement in the war. Laments also come from Hecuba and Andromache, both before and after the death of Hector in Book 22. Key themes of these lamentations involve their future after the predicted Fall of Troy as slaves of the Greeks and the role the male figure (Hector ...
Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
' The Shinkansen's Big Explosion ') is a 1975 Japanese action thriller film [4] directed by Junya Sato and starring Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba, and Ken Utsui. When a Shinkansen ("bullet train") is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if it slows below 80 km/h unless a ransom is paid, police race to find the bombers and to learn ...
The Return (2024) is a film based on Books 13-24, directed by Uberto Pasolini and starring Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus and Juliette Binoche as Penelope. [ 95 ] The Odyssey (2026), written and directed by Christopher Nolan , will be based on the books and is slated to be released in 2026.
Pandarus, who fought on the side of Troy in the Trojan War [3] and led a contingent from Zeleia, first appeared in Book Two of the Iliad. In Book Four, he is tricked by Athena, who wishes for the destruction of Troy and assumes the form of Laodocus, son of Antenor, to shoot and wound Menelaus with an arrow, sabotaging a truce that could ...
—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice). The Iliad: A New Translation Ecco Press/Vintage Classics (2015). Lost Gold of the Dark Ages: War, Treasure and the Mystery of the Saxons, Random House/National Geographic Society (2011). The War that Killed Achilles: The True Story of the Iliad and the Trojan War Viking / Faber (2009).