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HEROES.(motion picture 'Troy')(Movie Review)
The Bible is so varied and so richly suggestive as a narrative source that moviemakers can go low ("The Ten Commandments," "The Passion of the Christ") or high ("The Gospel According to St. Matthew") and get away with either strategy. Hollywood has turned other ancient sources, including the Greek myths, into science fiction, and strongmen like Hercules and Samson into immobile behemoths with raven-haired beauties sprawled at their feet. But how do you do Homer--not just well, but at all? Consider these lines from the Iliad, in Richmond Lattimore's awkwardly powerful translation: "He cried out then, a great city, broken, the spear in him, / and fell, thunderously, and the ...
- Plays of Aeschylus: Agamemnon (458 B.C.)
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Aeschylus January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Son of Thyestes and cousin of Agamemnon. While Agamemnon was at Troy he became Clytemnestra's...passed since the departure of Agamemnon and Menelaus, with a great army in a thousand ships, for Troy. They indicate that the war...
- Lulu's barking mad gift for Agamemnon.
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) June 3, 2004 700+ words
...surely, Brian's best present was the one he has just given himself. The Dundee-born actor, who stars as Agamemnon in the film Troy, has treated himself and his pregnant second wife, Nicole, who is 25 years his junior, to a fabulous [pounds...
- Bad hair day for Agamemnon and Co. (opera review)
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) Gillard, David May 24, 2002 700+ words
...Armani Achilles and a Versace Agamemnon, you'll probably like Bettina...that will take her father, Agamemnon, and his army safely to Troy. But the wrath of her beloved...of lingering torment. Poor Agamemnon was so distressed that half...
- BRITISH RESEARCHERS RECONSTRUCT HISTORY NEW TECHNIQUES PUT FACE ON WORLD RULED...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) June 1, 1997 700+ words
...in the times leading up to Agamemnon. The effort is part of the...uncovered the golden death mask of Agamemnon, the Greek king who sacked Troy. The find, however, was...Mycenae, where many believe Agamemnon ruled 1,200 years before...
- Agamemnon
- Reference information from: World Encyclopedia January 1, 2005 700+ words
Agamemnon In Greek mythology, king of Mycenae, and brother of Menelaus. According to Homer's Iliad , he led the Greeks at the siege of Troy . When Troy fell, Agamemnon returned home but was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.
- A bold new `Agamemnon' Timely references energize `Oresteia' trilogy opener
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Ed Siegel, Globe Staff December 2, 1994 700+ words
...BC Greece still resonates. Agamemnon is returning to Argos as a...brother's wife, Helen. Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, is...arms. And a hidden blade. Agamemnon offered up a little sacrifice...the war gods on his way to Troy -- his daughter Iphigenia...
- The "face of Agamemnon".
- Magazine article from: Hesperia Dickinson, Oliver June 22, 2005 700+ words
...originally associate this mask with Agamemnon. ********** The burial...identified it as the "face of Agamemnon." (1) Any argument that...with regard to his work at Troy. Traill has been able to demonstrate...Schliemann identified as that of Agamemnon. I would argue, in opposition...
- THE MANY FACES OF AGAMEMNON
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London MICHAEL SHERIDAN June 11, 1995 700+ words
...of Homer. The Mask of Agamemnon, like so many other...devoted to the discovery of Troy and Mycenae. His book...the site of Homer's Troy and that all his efforts...children, christened Agamemnon and Andromache. While...chosen objective: finding Troy. The author explains...
