Influences of Homer’s Iliad on the film

Troy was based on the poem but one Problem Wolfgang Peterson had done in the make of the film was it did not neccacerialy stay completely ture to the poem. What had been influenced in the movie from the iliad was culture. Culture was infuenced in the movie by the burning of bodies after the death of a person. The Greeks would place two coins one on each eye whislt burning the body for the ferryman that takes the lost souls down the river styx. This was expressed in the burning of Hektor, Patroclus. An influence that the Iliad had on the flim was the character Achilles and his emotions. Achilles shows Anger in both the iliad and the film when his Cousin(film)/friend(poem) dies by the hand of Hektor.

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