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Originally Posted by All-American
Would I hate watching it? I haven't seen it yet-- it came out while I was on my mission.
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You'd like it, as long as you're not too much of a purist going in. There's a lot of good social history in there (costumes, ships, etc.) - The women of Troy wear jewelry modeled on "Priam's Treasure" found by Schliemann, etc. It departs pretty radically from the epic, and there aren't really any gods (Thetis is a little ambiguous - it shows her in the water), and there's this ridiculous love thing going on with Achilles and Briseis, but I really think it captures THE RAGE of Achilles. I show about 10 minutes to my Greek Civ class.