IRIS

Will Brad Pitt really take another stab at Homer…in a movie set in space?
Brad Pitt & George Miller Team on The Odyssey
Source: Variety October 17, 2008
After turning Homer’s epic poem “The Iliad” into the 2004 film Troy, Warner Bros. and Brad Pitt are teaming with George Miller to adapt the Greek poet’s other masterwork, “The [...]

[Read more →]

I just discovered (via rogueclassicism) this article in the New York Times on a visit to the site of ancient Troy.

As it happened, our two-week visit to Turkey afforded a perfect moment to indulge our Homeric idée fixe. The trek north on Turkey’s west coast permitted a brief Trojan fly-by during the drive from Pergamum [...]

[Read more →]

In his Tuesday Morning Quarterback column, Gregg Easterbrook assails the tendency of ancient authors to overstate the size of military expeditions:

In the 2004 Brad Pitt demi-epic “Troy,” the fleet assembled by the Greek king Agamemnon to sail against Troy is depicted as hundreds of sail vessels stretching as far as the eye can see. This [...]

[Read more →]