Differences Between Troy And The Iliad

Narratives need to have well-developed characters. As authors and translators do revisions and translations, they often change things in a piece, most often how the plot runs and how the characters act. Greek mythology has a strong idea of what makes a hero as well as certain ideals of honor and war. This essay will be looking at the character changes of Paris of Troy -- his cowardice, unmanliness, and lack of spirit -- through the novel The Iliad, by Homer, and the movie Troy, directed by Wolfgang Petersen.

The Iliad: Book VI is about the continued war for Troy but Homer focuses a lot of the book on Hector, Prince of Troy. The Achaeans were overwhelming the Trojans so they were forced back into their city. The Trojans were weakened so the Achaeans took full advantage and slaughtered as many as they could. However, the Trojans anticipated this weakness and Hector asked his mother to pray to Athena for the army. Meanwhile Paris, Hector’s brother, had withdrawn from battle because of the grief he caused. But his soon to be wife Helen and Hector convince him to return to battle. Just before they head into battle Hector pays a visit to his wife and child to say goodbye for maybe the last time. His wife is convinced that he is near his death and mourns. Hector then meets Paris on the way to the city gate and they prepare to fight.

The Iliad, written by Homer, plays an adequate role in determining the events of Troy. Although there is a five-century separation between the fighting of the Trojan War in 1250 BC and the composition of the Iliad in 750 BC, Homer’s legend still remains to be one of the key evidences to this day.

The Movie Troy has been one of the best Hollywood movies to be filmed. However, many historical events that took place in the movie, and the Iliad can be questioned whether or not they are reliable, creating controversy about the historical accuracy of the film. This essay will examine and evaluate the evidence, and compare the movie with archeological evidence about the Trojan War. It will be argued that the myth of Troy was altered while creating the epic movie, Troy, to make it more attractive for the audience. I will begin by introducing the source of the movie’s storyline.

The Iliad begins with Chryses, a prophet of Apollo, coming to a Greek camp and offering valuable “penalty tokens” requesting the return of his daughter who the Greeks had captured in a raid. Because Agamemnon believed she was rightfully his, he refused. Most of his fellow Greeks wanted him to return her in order to avoid conflict. In order to preserve his time (honor, respect, value), Agamemnon brings danger to them all. Chryses prays to Apollo and a plague is released upon the Achaeans. Achilles, a basileus in the Greek army, suggests seeking insight from the prophet Calchas. Upon doing so

The movie Troy is largely based off of The Iliad. However, it is also highly inspired by The Aeneid and The Odyssey. The massive guidance that The Aeneid and The Odyssey had on the movie are able to be seen in the ending of the movie as Troy is being sacked. The Trojan War makes Odysseus a hugely popular war hero in The Odyssey. However, there are many modifications made in the movie that create some discrepancies between the books and the movie. These discrepancies mostly involve the outcome of some of the more popular characters like Menelaus, Agamemnom and Helen. The movies portrayor of the outcomes and interactions of characters like these largely goes against how the books represent them.

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey have been treasured for centuries as outstanding works of poetry and regarded among the greatest works of Greek literature. The Iliad and Odyssey evoke a sense of wonder at the exploits of the heroes while at the same time serving information for Ancient Greeks who look to Homer’s epics as a source of historical and cultural knowledge. Ancient Greeks most likely regarded the description of the hero’s epic adventures and exploits as representation of the cornerstone of their civilization. Homer’s epics recount the story of the unfolding events in weeks leading to the tenth year of the legendary Trojan War and the siege of the city of Troy. Homer most likely fixed the Iliad and Odyssey from the original oral form

The Iliad is also a poem that homer wrote. It was composed around the seven hundred to eight hundred BC. The Iliad tells about life within Troy. The Iliad also has twenty- four sections. It is one of the oldest surviving Greek poems. The story covers fifty-four days while most of the action takes place at a Greek camp. According to the Iliad, the Trojan War was fought over Helen, the beautiful wife of Homer. For nearly three thousand years, readers have found the Iliad a moving expression of the heroism, idealism, and tragedy of

What is beauty? Some may say Helen is and was the definition of beauty. Can beauty be born or be simply made by the Gods. Beauty in this epic tale in The Iliad had the power to make any man do anything, Helen being a famous female character in this ancient time made the power of beauty strike. In this period of time walked many strong warriors, many famous warriors. But they all seemed to let Helen has the power. When being this beautiful I believe it came with a big price. She was blamed for the war. She was called the innocent, the guilty, the dangerous, the sinful, the irresponsible, and the woman who “launched a thousand ships”. She was blamed because these men were fools to her beauty. A woman’s beauty can’t possibly be the cause for all this death and destruction. But in the epic tale of The Iliad, these men made Helen the most powerful one of them all.

The film Troy did not show us the true meaning of The Iliad. Troy was a good movie, but it didn’t show the audience the important events from the book. Many people would argue that the book was descriptive and really caught their attention, but the movie was a very vague representation of the The Iliad . Troy was a poor representation of The Iliad because it didn’t portray intense characters, a good setting, or a powerful message.

First, the city found by the German amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in the North of Turkey matches the description of Troy found in Homer's Iliad perfectly. For example, ''gates wide enough for two chariots'', described in the Iliad, were found on the site, as well as the thick walls that could have withstand ten years of siege. However, there was some doubt about this city being the mythical Troy, because what was found by Schliemann was far too small to endure a long siege, but it was later discovered that what Schliemann had found was only a small fraction of this city during the Bronze Age. This city, found at the edge of Turkey in the Aegean sea, was big enough for two to four thousand people, proven by the ditches found by _______,

The Iliad is one of the most profound pieces of literature ever discovered, as well a one of the most controversial. Although the epic is set in Mycenaean Greece (12th cent. BCE) there is much historical, archeological and linguistic evidence points towards the piece being written between 760 and 710 B.C.E. Mycenaean Greece existed in the Bronze Age, which was believed by later Greeks to be an Age of great kingdoms where glorious gods frequented earth. The Iliad was mostly composed in Ionian dialect which some scholars believe signifies the origin of the author (eastern Greece) or that the author was using the dialect for artistic purposes. The author attributed to writing the Iliad is Homer, but some scholars question whether Homer was a real person or perhaps multiple people. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. The concept of heroism, as well as honor, are major currents

From the standpoint of the study of Homer as a poet, the War of Troy was a war actually fought nearly four centuries before Homer's time, and the causes of that war were almost certainly political and economic (Moss and Wilson). Homer thus, adopted the historical fact of the war and the tradition of an exciting legend. In The Iliad Homer uses the War of Troy as an example of the tragic futility of all wars, rather than assuming either an antiwar or a pro-war position.

“Until now we used to say that the Greeks fight like Heros. Now we say: The Heroes fight like Greeks” (Winston Churchill). Western Civilization have been focused and built on the Greeks, especially their hero’s. The two main heroes of the Greeks were Achilles and Odysseus, from the two great Epic poems. Although, the heroes Odysseus and Achilles from Homer’s epics the Iliad and Odyssey display several differences and similarities.

Film adaptations often do a less than adequate job of representing the book off of which they are based. Occasionally, a director with the correct vision and drive will produce a movie that leaves the audience screaming for more. One must take a step back and decide whether it is more important for a movie to be entertaining, or follow the plot of the book from which its story is taken. In the 2004 film Troy, by Wolfgang Petersen, the story, although interesting, fails to correctly follow the plot of Homer’s The Iliad in multiple instances. From the overall timeline of the story to the main focus and character development, much creative license was taken in the production. While the movie is certainly fantastic, many differences exist between its main focus and that of The Iliad.