Troy with Ryan Stitt Part 1

Description: Today we are joined by Ryan Stitt of the History of Ancient Greece podcast to look at the history and myths of ancient Greece through the lens of the 2004 epic Troy starring Orlando Bloom, Brendan Gleeson and Brad Pitt. Ryan traces the earliest versions of the epic poem by Homer which is the basis of the movie, discuss the gods and characters involved and much more.

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Today we are talking about the movie troy from 2004 as the retelling of the classic story of a 10 year long siege of the Asia minor city of troy by the various kingdoms of Greece. We will see all the characters we expect Achilles Helen of troy, agamemnon, Paris, and many more. Today. We'll dig in in order to find out what was the background of the movie troy, and what is the history and the connection to the literature of homer. We have our work cut out for us today, so I'm really glad to be joined by Ryan Stet of the history of ancient Greece podcast. Brian studied classical languages and ancient history at the University of Alabama. He also has done post graduate work at Ucla, Brian, as an active duty commissioned officer in the United States air force. Brian tells the story of ancient Greece through a narrative rich with details and entertaining storylines, so thank you so much for coming onto the show and thank you for your service.

You're welcome. It's my pleasure. I've been a big fan of, uh, your first podcasts, the history of papacy, and I'm extreme fan of, uh, this adventure that you're going on now with the big screen podcast.

Thank you so much. Let's just quickly go over the production details. A courtesy of I am DB, but director is Wolfgang Peterson. He's the director of many big budget, big action movies. It's based on the Iliad by homer, an ancient piece of work which we'll get into it, so run time of approximately a hundred and 60 minutes and it's scored in the mid fifties and both rotten tomatoes and metacritic, so not like off the charts but pretty decent, but cast as a mega cast. We're talking Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, a lot of bases that would be very recognizable, but maybe might not put your finger on them, such as Brian Cox. Probably everybody would know Peter or two old...

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