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Helen of Troy is a 1956 American-Italian-French epic historical drama film, based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.It was directed by Robert Wise, from a screenplay by Hugh Gray and John Twist, adapted by Hugh Gray and N. Richard Nash.
The Woman Cop (French: La Femme flic) is a 1980 French film directed by Yves Boisset that stars Miou-Miou as an impetuous young police inspector whose disregard for the constraints under which police and prosecutors have to work leads to her dismissal.
The edition of the Odyssey that Atwood read was the E. V. Rieu and D. C. H. Rieu's translation. For research she consulted Robert Graves' The Greek Myths. [20] Graves, an adherent to Samuel Butler's theory that the Odyssey was written by a woman, also wrote The White Goddess, which formed the basis of the Maid's anthropology lecture. [21] [22]
Soon after she confides in her friend her concerns for the female sex, the women begin arriving. With support from the Spartan Lampito, Lysistrata persuades the other women to withhold sexual privileges from their menfolk as a means of forcing them to conclude the Peloponnesian War. The women are reluctant, but the deal is sealed with a solemn ...
The film is a retelling of the last sections of Homer's Odyssey as adapted by Edward Bond, John Collee, and Pasolini. It premiered in the Gala section at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2024, and was theatrically released on December 6, 2024, in the United States by Bleecker Street .
Doctor Odyssey Cast Reveals Whether They ve Ever Been on a Cruise — And If They d Go After the Show 610 The Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum, who guest stars on an episode, last went on a ...
The Golden Apple is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Moross and both book and lyrics by John Treville Latouche. [1] The musical's story is based on parts of the Iliad and Odyssey.
The Odyssey of Captain Blood (1996) by Vladimir Kosov, a fragment of the picture for the novel. The protagonist is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish physician who had had a wide-ranging career as a soldier and sailor (including a commission as a captain under the Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before settling down to practice medicine in the town of Bridgwater in Somerset.