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...Patroclus), the script by John Twist shows a commendable respect for the letter of the myth. It is the spirit that is Twisted. Homer's was a mythic drama in which gods and heroes, love and politics, war and religion moiled in the mortar of imagination. Helen of Troy is basically a story of hot pants in high places. The hero, accordingly, is not "godlike Hector" or "great Achilles" but "soft Paris," whom even Helen called a coward. As the part is written, the "pest of Troy" can actually fight like a Trojan, and, as it is played...
...film is most successful when transforms Homeric epithet into moving picture. The frontal assault on Troy is a grand sight- yet not so grand that the spectator wonders if he has not arrived for the Dardanelles campaign 3,000 years late. The chariot chases are breakneck things. Best of all, though, is the passage in which the colossal horse comes gliding into Troy on a churning revel, like the thought of death on the full flood of life...
Date of Conflict: About 1100 B.C. Battlefield: The plains before the city of Troy, also known as Ilium, rediscovered in 1872 by the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at the site of the modern Hissarlik on the River Scamander in northwest Turkey, just south of the Aegean entrance to the Dardanelles...
Causes: Some divine, some all too human. The goddess Athena, angered because Prince Paris had awarded her half-sister Aphrodite the prize for beauty, decided to stir up the Greeks against the Trojans. It was not hard to do. Troy was rich in tribute taken from Greek merchants. Moreover, Paris himself was the young spark that fell into this tinder box. His rape of Helen, Queen of Sparta, whom he carried off to Troy in a fast galley, brought the Greeks to the shores of Asia Minor in 1186 ships...
Results: Destruction of Troy. However, the Trojans got their revenge: Aeneas, with the help of Aphrodite, his mother, escaped from falling Troy with his father, the blind Anchises, on his back. He sailed to Italy, and there, according to Virgil's Aeneid, founded the city of Rome, which in turn conquered Greece...