The Trojan war is an actual fact it took place in about 1250 B.C.. This war was between the Greek city-state of Sparta and Troy an other civilization which is now represented by the countr...
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In the Trojan War, the gods decide to take sides as to whom they favor most. The Greeks and Trojans are fighting a war started by a dispute between three gods, so different gods take different sid...
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There has been much debate regarding the historicity of the Trojan War. The main conflicting issues include the reliability of the Iliad and if the legendary war occurred or not. However evidence has ...
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Recent archaeological excavations have served to confirm the earlier work by Schliemann, Dorpfeld and Blegan, who initially worked on the premise that Homer's Iliad was sheer legend. Through their ext...
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Various Archaeologists have made their own contribution to our knowledge of Troy and the possible occurrence of the Trojan War. Schliemann is one such archaeologist who made a significant contribution...
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Archaeological and written evidence reveals that women of the Trojan War, even though they had many qualities, were thought to be inferior to men to the point of objects and slaves. Archaeological ...
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10: JasonJason was forced to embark on his famous quest for the Golden Fleece as a prerequisite for becoming the king of a Greek city. The Fleece was located in a region of the Black Sea, and Jason...
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Charles Mee’s plays are like literary Frankensteins. He rips apart ancient Greek tragedies, stitches in snippets from blogs, the evening news and Kelly Clarkson songs, then jolts them with hi...
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Director Tina Landau knows how to do bold.Her take on Charles Mee's "Iphigenia 2.0" is aggressive, in-your-face theatrical, a startling, ambitious re-examination of the Euripides classic done in mo...
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It was tough enough in antiquity to be a sorceress, let alone the planet's most beautiful woman. In the postmodern world, you have to compete for attention with directors, too.Strauss' "Die Aegypti...
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The British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, whose Painted Sculpture exhibition is on view at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, has long enjoyed a highly successful career on both sides of the Atlantic. It's a ca...
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War may be hell, but it often makes for good theater. The recent New York openings of two very different plays about two very different wars have given theatergoers an opportunity to examine how pl...
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Selected home-video releases:"Death Proof"Quentin Tarantino's part of "Grindhouse," the double-feature he made with Robert Rodriguez, comes to DVD in a two-disc set, featuring an extended and unrat...
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Stephen Bochco’s new Iraq war drama Over There has several flaws, but the fatal one is the background music. Mr. Bochco has declared his production politics-free; he intends merely for it to ...
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Stephen Bochco’s new Iraq war drama Over There has several flaws, but the fatal one is the background music. Mr. Bochco has declared his production politics-free; he intends merely for it to ...
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