great movie-pathetic compared to Iliad (Ιλιάδα)

Rating: 9/10 (9 March 2008)

As I am Greek (and in Greece we study Iliad to Greek class from the age of 12) I have to say I loughed so many times with the comments of some "experts" (professors etc). First of all I LOVED the movies (gave 9/10). One "professor" wrote "First of all, decide what you want: if you want history, you need to throw the Iliad out of the window, because Homer was definitely NOT historically accurate". Da...For God shake, Homer was a poet...Iliad is full of mentions to Gods (and they decide how the war will end).For certain the events that he describes are not historically accurate because he doesn't care...He cares about things like friendship, heroism and everything a POET should care. You don't have to be a professor with PhD to say that... Later I read "As a matter of fact, the post-Homeric epics describe Achilles as a thug and the Myrmidons as a band of robbers, spoiling temples and abducting daughters of priests"...MERCY...Achilles was son of goddess Thetis (Θέτις)...he had a great sense of right and wrong, and he also despited the gods for being cruel to men... Anyway, stop playing that you know everything and just enjoy the movie...