Trojan War

But do they know about the rest of the stories?

not typically they mainly expect there to be something about achilles being dipped in the river styx you know from mythology they may have taken and that's not really in the poem and they know something about the trojan war the judgment of paris um but again you know the big surprise with the iliad is you're in the last year of the war you get about 50 51 days of it that's the whole poem And it doesn't end with the end of the war.

So students love, by the time you get to the end, they think this is like the best story I've ever read.

But, you know, the one thing they always comment on is, I thought, you know, I thought the end of the war would come.

But do they know about the rest of the stories?

not typically they mainly expect there to be something about achilles being dipped in the river styx you know from mythology they may have taken and that's not really in the poem and they know something about the trojan war the judgment of paris um but again you know the big surprise with the iliad is you're in the last year of the war you get about 50 51 days of it that's the whole poem And it doesn't end with the end of the war.

So students love, by the time you get to the end, they think this is like the best story I've ever read.

But, you know, the one thing they always comment on is, I thought, you know, I thought the end of the war would come.

But do they know about the rest of the stories?

not typically they mainly expect there to be something about achilles being dipped in the river styx you know from mythology they may have taken and that's not really in the poem and they know something about the trojan war the judgment of paris um but again you know the big surprise with the iliad is you're in the last year of the war you get about 50 51 days of it that's the whole poem And it doesn't end with the end of the war.

So students love, by the time you get to the end, they think this is like the best story I've ever read.

But, you know, the one thing they always comment on is, I thought, you know, I thought the end of the war would come.

he does bury underneath those, um...

I've, the thing, my favorite thing about Camillus' story is the, um, way they write about both the sack of Rome, um, and the taking, uh, like, his sacking, um, of the city a- as, as if it is like the Trojan War that they have experienced.

Yes.

Um, but w- [laughs] they're so small.

So directed by Christopher Nolan and based on the epic work, The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus, played by Matt Damon.

After the Trojan War, he faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, where his wife Penelope, played by Anne Hathaway, is being plagued by potential suitors to remarry.

As part of his journey, Odysseus must encounter the likes of the Cyclops, played by Bill Irwin, the Sirens and Calypso, played by Charlize Theron.

We have a cast of thousands here, including Tom Holland, John Bernthal, Travis Scott, Elliot Page, Mia Goth, Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo and Lupita Nyong'o.

Most people, the thing that I think they know about her is that she's very beautiful.

She was the reason that the 10-year Trojan War was fought.

So this is someone whose beauty is so significant that wars are being fought over her.

And the reason why she caused that war is because she's married to Menelaus, but then she goes off with Paris, the prince, and that is why, you know, this whole war is kind of erupting.

It is important whose land it is and whose land that they are using to describe this journey.

so agamemnon let's talk about agamemnon and let's talk about why agamemnon is important because this is his like he starts the trojan war ostensibly because menelaus lost his old lady to um a trojan but actually Agamemnon wants to open up the trade routes that Troy has been in control of.

So this is really about commerce, aka capitalism.

And it's all about Agamemnon wanting to make more money and to exploit people along the way.

I'm sorry for your eyes.

During the Trojan War, Ares fought on the side of Troy largely because Aphrodite supported the Trojans.

However, he was wounded by the Greek hero Diomedes after Athena guided the hero's spear.

Homer writes that Ares' cry shook the battlefield like the roar of 10,000 soldiers.