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TROY (THE

MOVIE) & ILIAD(THE BOOK)

Profa: Eva


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TROY (THE MOVIE) & ILIAD (THE BOOK)

Agamemnon is at Thessaly, preparing to fight the localkingdom.

Before starting the battle, the thessalonian kingproposes to Agamemnon a duel between Achilles andBoagrius, the local champion warrior.

Achilles wins easily, the thessalian king gives his scepterto Achilles.

Achilles refuses, saying that Agamemnon is not his king.


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Hector and Paris go to a diplomatic visit to Sparta to seal a

peace agreement between Sparta and Troy and before returning

home Paris manages to smuggle Helen, the queen of Sparta

and wife of Menelau, bringing her to Troy.


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It infuriates Menelauand his brotherAgamemnon, king ofMycenas, who has theintention to defeat

Troy in order toexpand his kingdom,imediatly organize abig army, joining allthe greek

confederation. Beforegoing to Troy, Nestor,Agamemnonscounsilor, advises himto convince Achilles to

join the army.Odysseus goes to talk


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At first Achilles

refuses to joing the

confederation and

consult his mother

Thetis. She says him:

If he stay, he will

have peace, love and

long life but his namewill be forgotten. If he

goes, he will find

glory in combat but

will die there. He

decides to go to war.


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When the fleet of ships reachs the beaches of Troy, Achilles and hismen, before the confrontation begins, goes to the temple of Apollo,desecrate the temple and Achilles kidnaps Briseis, daugther of the

priest, bringing her to his tent. Meanwhile, before the combat begins,

Agamemnon sends soldiers to Achilles tent to take Briseis from him.It puts Achilles deep furious and he decides dont go to war with his

men.


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Giving to the Greek a entertainment, Agamemnongives Briseis to his troop, to be abused. On the vergeof being raped and branded with a hot iron, she isrescued by Achilles.

Bringing her to his tentagain, they engage inconversation, she is

hostile to Achilles andhe says her that he isnot brute. Moments

later they are engagedin love.


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Achilles decides to goback home but Patroclusbegs Achilles to allowhim take part in the

battle. Patroclus takesAquilles' armour, swordand spear, and when hewas in the battlefield,Hector, thinkingPatroclus is Achilles, kills

Patroclus.

Achilles, who is out ofthe battle, angered withAgamemnon, nowmoves his anger to the

Hector.


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After the funeral of Patroclus, Achilles returns to thebattlefield, goes to Trojan walls, challenging Hector. Both duel

for minutes and Achilles kills Hector, attaching his body to hischariot, dragging him back to the Greek camp.


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During the night, Priamgoes to the Greekcamp to supplicate

Achilles to give himback Hectors body for

the funeral. In anattitude of humiliation

to the best warrior,Priam kisses Achilles

hands. Touched,

Achilles cries, giving toPriam Hectors bodyand Briseis, who wastook from the Apollostemple. Greeks and

Priam agrees a ceasefire of twelve days for


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Greeks make a hugewooden horse, being

careful to accommodateas much armed soldiers

as they can inside thehorse. The horse is

pushed to the gates ofTroy and Greeks

announce to Troy thatthe horse is a gift to seal

a peace agreement.Naively, Trojans openthe gate, pulling the

horse inside.

During the night the soldiers inside the horse, open the gates toAgamemnons troop that was in front of the gates, ready for the


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During the destruction of Troy, Agamemnon kills Priam.

Meanwhile, Achilles searches for Briseis but Agamemnon

finds her before and while trying to rape her, she stabs and

kills him. Meanwhile Paris shots an arrow to Achilles, hitting

his heel.

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