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I brought some of my team members from the Amsterdam Troy Project to sit and react to the 2004 epic Troy with me! Even though we can't get to Troy this year to carry out our excavations, we can still ...
Although there are more spectacular ancient sites on Turkey’s Aegean coast, including the magnificent library at Ephesus and ...
USA's "Helen of Troy" is personality-free folklore, a stiff portrait of mythology that hides within the comfort zones of elaborate costuming, special effects and accents. Mini's dialogue is full ...
Now this is a war. The USA Network’s two-part “Helen of Troy” is about as bloody as television gets. And about as bloody bad. So ferociously inane is it, in fact, that it’s irresistible ...
The legend will live” claim ads for Warner Bros. $200-million-plus epic “Troy,” inspired by Homer’s “The Iliad,” which chronicles the Trojan War. But how closely… ...
For Troy: Fall of a City, Homer's description of his characters is largely irrelevant. A few of the show's critics seem mistakenly to believe it is meant to be an adaptation of the Iliad. It isn't.
Achilles and Helen's relationship has a long and storied history, of which we've been given enough information to grasp without ever knowing the full depth of it, ... Yes, Achilles in Troy: ...
It takes real cash to be Spartan: Brad Pitt plays a bronzed, maxim-spouting Achilles in Wolfgang Petersen's $175-million toga-and-breastplate fantasy, Troy. Achilles to Olympus: Bring ...
Achilles is on the verge of attacking Agamemnon when the goddess Athena appears behind him “and grabbed him by his chestnut hair. ... In Book 3, we meet Helen of Sparta, now Helen of Troy, ...
USA's "Helen of Troy" is personality-free folklore, a stiff portrait of mythology that hides within the comfort zones of elaborate costuming, special effects and accents. Mini's dialogue is full ...