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...only people mad enough to employ Petersen on a regular basis are movie executives, who are trapped in an increasingly illogical if undeniably daring way of doing business. The latest proof is Petersen's loose adaptation of Homer's The Iliad, starring Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom. With a budget that Warner Bros. (which, like TIME, is part of Time Warner) puts at $175 million--but that several sources say has crept closer to a quarter of a billion dollars--Troy is one of the biggest, craziest movie gambits since Titanic. It's not just that the film required...
...story, The Iliad, is the epic poem of the Trojan War, set off when Paris, a Trojan prince, settles a dispute among three goddesses and is rewarded with Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. The goddesses neglect to inform Paris that Helen is married, and Agamemnon, brother of Helen's husband and king of the Greeks, sends 1,000 ships to Troy to get her back. Paris--a lover not a fighter--asks his noble brother Hector to defend him and the rest of Troy while the Greeks rally behind the demigod Achilles, the world's greatest warrior...
...Harvard advanced Greek examination (2 points), the following board examination in Greek--(c) Iliad, books I--III; (h) sight translation of Homer. (Candidates are advised to present also (f) prose composition, since a fair success in it will offset deficiencies in the other parts of the examination in advanced Greek...
...Coming Attractions" reported that Brad Pitt will portray the great warrior Achilles in Troy, the new film version of The Iliad [WHAT'S NEXT: ARTS, Sept. 8]. Please say it isn't so! I'd rather see Arnold Schwarzenegger as Achilles and Pitt as a candidate for California Governor. BOB DOLAN Fullerton, Calif...
...travelogue through the wilder outposts of ancient Greece has inspired ordinary films (Kirk Douglas in a mid-'50s Ulysses), funny ones (the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and one masterpiece (Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze, a mesmeric synopsis of a century of Greek history). But where's The Iliad? Hard to find, except in the 1956 Helen of Troy, a sober retelling from the Trojans' point of view...