You could look back to the last major adaptation of Homer, Wolfgang Peterson’s 2004 hit “Troy,” and say that Brad Pitt had ...
Back in the long ago if not quite ancient times when I was an undergraduate, our Jesuit lecturer would get almost ...
In Pat Barker’s salty retelling, Homeric grandees like Odysseus, Paris, and Achilles are dismissed in passing as venal brutes. There are no heroes here, except perhaps for Clytemnestra ...
Wolfgang Peterson’s 2004 hit “Troy,” and say that Brad Pitt had the body to play Achilles. But Fiennes has the body (battered and sinewy) and the voice (resonant and rich) to play Odysseus ...
Odysseus recognizes Achilles amongst the daughters of Lycomedes after Odysseus (to the left) hid a helmet and a sword among his gifts to the girls. Achilles could not resist the lure of the weapons, ...
Halo Wars 3 may be a pipe dream at this point, but Age of Mythology: Retold goes a long way in proving that a sequel could ...
Though plenty of big changes are made from the original Greek myths in the Percy Jackson series, some aspects are faithful to ...
Check the Polyphemus section above for the story of Odysseus and Poly ... a wholegrain cereal named after the goddess of Earth. Achilles' Heels: foot-shaped cereal for the Greek hero whose ...
Suitor: a Grecian frat boy, really. ELEPNOR / SUITOR 2 / ACHILLES (30s-50s) - Role Cast. Elpenor: one of Odysseus' crew. Smart, capable. Elepnor and Nausithous are a couple. Achilles: the ghost of ...
Afterwards, she is given to the son of Achilles as a captive of war ... In Racine’s version, after the fall of Troy, Astyanax narrowly escapes Odysseus‘ plot to kill him, thanks to Andromache’s clever ...