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Default 05-18-2004, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by bukdez
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Originally Posted by Tripper
You have to remember, that both Homer's Illiad AND Virgil's Aeneid depict the events of the trojan war. So, conflicting ideas exist.....As far as I know, the film is based on the myths presented by BOTH poems.
Virgils Aeneid was written some several centuries after the Illiad, and must be taken with a grain a salt, as much of the poem is Augustan Propaganda meant to justify the growing imperial activities of Rome at that time, focusign less on the traditional epic folklore... also the Aeneid takes place primarily after the war, and lends little insight into the actual fighting...
Yeah, I think I was high when I wrote that...........It makes no sense.
  
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