Troy Movie Verses Epic

The recent popular movie, starring Brad Pitt as the briny protagonist and the tragic hero of the film, Troy, is a screen variant of an epic poesy The Iliad attributed to Homer. Although covering the last of the many days in the final year of the nine year beleaguering between the Greeks and the trojan horses, it tells of the battles and trials during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. It is evoke to note that during the last scenes of this movie, Aeneas, also the central character of the poem The Aeneid, is shown fleeing the burning city of Troy with his father and son, and fellow trojan horse warriors through a tunnel. This very scene literally and metaphorically gives way to the roman print version of what would be retold by the Roman poet, Virgil in his account of Homers story, The Iliad, in the starting time century BC.

In Virgils The Aeneid, after sailing for Italy, where Aeneass preordained destiny to found a city of Rome lay, a terrifying storm throws them off their course to a trim named, Carthage, where Dido, the queen of the land welcomes them.



Scenes from the movie, Troy that depicted the end of the Trojan War when in the last campaign the Trojans were tricked into accepting a wooden horse as a gift, inside of which, unknown to them, harbored a bevy of Greek soldiers in its hollow belly, up to the end of the movie where Aeneas makes his prophetic escape, was a significant moment of Aeneass story told to Dido, alongside other stories of his daunting voyage, in the initial lines of the Poem, The Aeneid.

Another intriguing contrast and comparison of the Trojan War and The Aeneid is that of epic heroes, Achilles and Aeneas - they were each gifted a decent vane. In the movie Troy, Achilles is gifted a powerful sword made by the god Hephaestus, while Aeneas in The Aeneid, is presented a sword by the god Venus. Emblazoned on the shield of Achilles arms are images of the universe, the sun, the moon and the constellations, and also...If you want to get a skilful essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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