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Troy Directed by Wolfgang Petersen Cast Greeks Brad Pitt As Achilles Troy . Adoni Maropis as Agamemnon's Directed by Wolfgang Petersen officer. Jacob Smith as Messenger boy. Cast . Retxed Karpintero as Old Spartan Greeks fisherman. Lucie Barat as Helen's handmaiden. Brad Pitt as Achilles - Son of Peleus and Thetis. Leader of the Trojans Myrmidons. Diane Kruger as Helen - Queen of . Eric Bana as Hector - Prince of Troy Sparta and wife of Menelaus. Lover of and the best warrior among the Trojans. Paris. Eldest son of Priam, brother of Paris and . Sean Bean as Odysseus - King of husband of Andromache. Ithaca and friend of Achilles. Considered . Orlando Bloom as Paris - Prince of the wisest among the Greeks. Troy. Youngest son of Priam, brother of . Brendan Gleeson as Menelaus - King of Hector and lover of Helen. Sparta and husband of Helen. Brother of . Peter O'Toole as Priam - King of Troy Agamemnon. and father of Hector and Paris. Brian Cox as Agamemnon - King of . Rose Byrne as Briseis - Priestess of Mycenae. Brother of Menelaus. Apollo and cousin of Hector and Paris. Garrett Hedlund as Patroclus - Cousin Lover of Achilles. and student of Achilles. Saffron Burrows as Andromache - . Tyler Mane as Ajax - King of Salamis. Princess of Troy and wife of Hector. Second to Achilles among the Greeks in . James Cosmo as Glaucus - terms of fighting skills. Commanding general of the Trojan army. John Shrapnel as Nestor - Adviser of . Nigel Terry as Archeptolemus - Trojan Agamemnon. high priest and adviser of Priam. Vincent Regan as Eudoros - Captain of . Trevor Eve as Velior - Trojan priest. the Myrmidons. Mark Lewis Jones as Tecton - Captain . Julie Christie as Thetis - Mother of of the Apollonian Guard. Achilles. Owain Yeoman as Lysander - Captain . Ken Bones as Hippasus - Adviser of of the Trojan army. Menelaus. Frankie Fitzgerald as Aeneas - Trojan . Julian Glover as Triopas - King of youth. Thessaly. Nathan Jones as Boagrius - Thessalian champion. Plot . Siri Svegler as Polydora - Spartan entertainer. In Sparta, Prince Hector (Eric Bana) and his tries to kill Achilles, but realizes that she young brother Paris (Orlando Bloom) loves Achilles and the two have sex. The negotiate peace between Troy and Sparta. next day Achilles is readying his men to Paris has fallen in love with Helen (Diane leave, much to Patroclus' indignation. Kruger), Menelaus' (Brendan Gleeson) wife. The Trojans launch a surprise attack. As the He smuggles her back to Troy with him. Greeks seem to be on the verge of defeat, Infuriated, Menelaus vows revenge. Achilles appears with the Myrmidons and Meanwhile, Agamemnon (Menelaus' brother), joins the battle, eventually fighting against who had for years harbored plans for Hector. All are shocked when Achilles is conquering Troy (which would give him beaten by Hector. However, Hector kneels control of the Aegean Sea), uses this as a and pulls Achilles' helmet off revealing it was justification to invade Troy. really Patroclus whom he has mortally General Nestor (John Shrapnel) asks him to wounded. Both armies agree to end fighting take Achilles (Brad Pitt), to rally troops to the for the day, and Odysseus informs Hector cause. who he had killed. Achilles, who had slept Odysseus (Sean Bean) visits Phtia to through the battle, is told by Eudorus of his persuade Achilles to fight, and finds him cousin's death. The Greeks had also training withPatroclus (Garrett Hedlund), his mistaken Patroclus for Achilles, since he had cousin. put on the same armour, and moved the same: Achilles furiously vows revenge. Later The Greeks land at Troy and take control of that night, Achilles lights Patroclus's funeral the beach, landing their ships. Achilles and pyre. theMyrmidons kill many Trojans and desecrate the temple of Apollo. Briseis (Rose The next day, Achilles approaches the gates Byrne), a member of the Trojan royal family, of Troy alone and demands Hector to come is captured and taken as a prize to the out and face him. The two fight an evenly Greeks, despite Achilles' claim to her. matched duel at the start, but Achilles soon takes the advantage. In the end Achilles kills Achilles and his Myrmidons do not fight the Hector. He then ties the body to the back of next day because of Agamemnon's unfair his chariot, dragging it back to the Greek claim to Briseis. With Greeks surrounding camp, leaving all the Trojans shocked. That Troy, Paris challenges Menelaus to a duel to night, King Priam (Peter O'Toole) visits the settle things. Menelaus agrees. Paris is easily Greek army's camp to retrieve Hector's defeated, and wounded, but not killed. body. After the King makes his plea Achilles Hector intervenes and kills Menelaus. The acquiesces to his request and allows him to Greeks charge the Trojan lines but are forced take his son to be buried, promising him the to fall back. 12 days for funerary rites. Achilles lets Priam Agamemnon gives Briseis to his men, but take Briseis back as well. He later gives Achilles rescues her. He carries her back to Eudorus one last order: to take the his tent and tends her wounds. Briseis then Myrmidons home. Briseis to join Paris as they escape the city. Achilles watches the others flee, then dies of Maquette Trojan Horse, used in Troy film, a his wounds. The soldiers arrive to see the gift from Brad Pitt to the Turkish fallen Achilles with only a single arrow townCanakkale. through his heel, as he had removed all the During the twelve days while Troy mourns others from his chest, fulfilling the myth that Hector's death, the Greeks plan to enter the Achilles was killed by a single arrow to the city using a hollowed-out wooden horse, heel. Funeral rituals are performed for him in devised by Odysseus, desperate to stem the the ruins of Troy the next day. The film ends slaughter of his own men at the hands of the with a speech from Odysseus; "If they ever Trojans. The Greeks leave the horse at their tell my story, let them say I walked with camp, then depart, hiding their ships in a giants. Men rise and fall like the winter nearby cove. Priam believes his priests that wheat, but these names will never die. Let the horse is an offering to Poseidonand a gift. them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer Assuming victory, the Trojans take the horse of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of into the city and celebrate. A band of Greeks Achilles." come out of the horse at night, opening the gates to the city, allowing the main army to enter. The unprepared Trojans are overwhelmed. As the city burns, Agamemmnon and Odysseus fight their way with their army to the palace, killing Glaucus and Priam in the onslaught. While Troy is sacked, Paris sees Aeneas together with Andromache and Helen and many others escaping Troy through a secret passage and hands him the sword of Troy, saying, "As long as it remains in the hands of a Trojan, our people have a future. Protect them Aeneas; find them a new home." Achilles searches desperately for Briseis, who is being threatened by Agamemnon. She kills him with a concealed knife, and is saved from his guards by Achilles. While Achilles is helping Briseis to her feet, Paris shoots Achilles in his vulnerable heel, and then several times in the torso. Briseis runs to Achilles, surprising Paris. Achilles urges the Odyssey are Greek epic poems, conventionally attributed to a singularly talented poet named Homer, who lived in the east Greek region of Ionia in the 8th century B.C.E. Most scholars today, however, question the idea that one singer-poet composed either or both poems, at least not as we would imagine a poet composing today. Further, a growing number of scholars contest the 8thcentury date of composition. There were multiple Trojan War story traditions developing at that time; homeric epic is not the earliest nor did it emerge as especially influential or important until the 6th century B.C.E. That much said, in classical antiquity the songs that became our Iliad andOdyssey did eventually achieve a unique and honorific status, which lived on in western European culture and literature. People today know the Iliad as a book, usually printed as lines of poetry and translated from the ancient Greek into English or another modern language. They experience it in the silence and solitude of reading. The first lines plunge most contemporary readers into the middle of an unfamiliar story populated by dozens of equally unfamiliar characters. The modern-day encounter with the Iliad however, is unlike that of most Greeks in the ancient world, especially before the time of Alexander the Great at the end of the 4th century B.C.E. Outside of a lettered elite in the historical period, most ancient Greeks would have read Homer rarely if at all. Instead, from childhood, they would have heard Trojan War poetry, including precursors to our Iliad, sung by poet- singers in feasting halls and during regional athletic festivals or musical competitions. The basic plot and the cast of characters were not only common knowledge, they were woven into the fabric of Greek social and cultural life. In early Greek settlements and cities, largely isolated by their location on islands or in the mountainous terrain of the southern Balkan peninsula, a rich variety of local versions grew up around the basic plot of the Trojan War story. The names of Trojan War heroes were figured into the genealogies of local elites and memorialized on civic ritual occasions. The visual world was richly imbued with images of The Trojan War Story told in the Iliad the Trojan War.
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