The Fall Of Troy

Jun 11, 2018  Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. The Fall of Troy Doppelganger ℗ 2005 Equal Vision Records, Inc. Released on: 2008-10-14 Auto-generated by YouTube. Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. The Fall of Troy Doppelganger ℗ 2005 Equal Vision Records, Inc. Released on: 2008-10-14 Auto-generated by YouTube.

CHORUS A: The main story of the Trojan War is told in an epic poem called the Iliad (IH-lee-ud). Scholars believe that the poem was probably based on a real war that was fought around 1250 B.C. Specific characters and events in the poem, however, are more likely to be legend than history.CHORUS B: The Iliad is thought to have been composed between 800 B.C. Semblance game.

By a blind Greek poet named Homer. The Iliad’s tales of gods and superheroes have made it one of the great works of world literature.

In the Iliad, the Trojan War is fought between the Greeks and Troy, a walled city near the Aegean Sea in present-day Turkey. This play is based on that poem and other legends.CHORUS C: The cause of the war was not land or money, but love. Aphrodite (af-ruh-DYE-tee), the goddess of love, had promised Helen, the world’s most beautiful woman, to a Trojan prince named Paris.

But she was already married to a Greek king named Menelaus (men-uh-LAY-us). When Helen ran off with Paris, Menelaus declared war on Troy to get her back. CHORUS D: When we begin our tale, the war between the Greeks and the Trojans has been raging for nine years. Yet the Greeks have never been able to conquer Troy.CHORUS E: The Greeks have another big problem on their hands.

Achilles, one of their best soldiers, has withdrawn from battle after a dispute with one of the Greek kings. Because of this, the Trojans, led by their greatest warrior, Hector, a brother of Paris, almost drive the Greeks from the outskirts of Troy back to their ships.CHORUS A: Achilles’ cousin and best friend, Patroclus, begs the Greek warrior to return to battle to help the desperate Greeks.PATROCLUS: Our side will be defeated unless you rejoin the battle.ACHILLES: Whose side are you talking about, my friend? I no longer have a side. I already quit.PATROCLUS: Then let me wear your armor and lead our troops. If the Trojans think that you’ve returned to the fight, we may still avoid defeat.ACHILLES: Very well. I hope you can drive them back from our ships.CHORUS B: Patroclus, dressed in Achilles’ armor, succeeds in rallying the Greeks.

They fight ferociously, and the Trojans retreat in fear. But even after the Trojans have backed away from the Greek ships, Patroclus continues to attack. Then Hector, the bravest Trojan, rides closer to the Greeks.PATROCLUS: Get back, Trojan dogs! (He hurls a large stone at Hector, but misses him.)HECTOR: Ha! Come on, Greek scum!CHORUS C: Patroclus fights fiercely. But then the god Apollo, who is on Troy’s side, strikes Patroclus in the back, weakening him.

Then Hector deals the blow that kills Patroclus.CHORUS D: After the battle, the Greeks carry the body of Patroclus to Achilles.ACHILLES: No! My dear friend! You are going to the underworld of Hades (HAY-deez) because I refused to fight. I will get back to the battle and take my revenge on Hector and the Trojans.

CHORUS E: The next day, Achilles storms into battle in search of Hector. Meanwhile, Priam, the king of Troy, watches from the city walls as his son Hector fights.PRIAM: Achilles is unstoppable! He will kill us all. Open the gates and bring our men inside, where it’s safe.

Get inside!HECTOR: No, Father. How can I seek safety when so many of my men have fallen before Achilles?ACHILLES: Hector! You will pay for my friend’s death with your own.CHORUS A: In fear, Hector runs away. He circles the city three times, with Achilles close behind.

Suddenly, the goddess Athena, who sides with the Greeks, appears next to Hector, disguised as one of his brothers.HECTOR: Brother! What are you doing here? I’m glad to see you. With you by my side, I’ll stand and fight!CHORUS B: Hector hurls his spear, but it bounces off Achilles’ shield. Hector turns to his brother to get another spear—but his “brother” has disappeared. In his place.HECTOR: Athena!

You’ve tricked me! The gods have lured me to my death. (Achilles hurls his spear and kills Hector.). CHORUS C: But even with Hector dead, the Greeks are unable to capture Troy. Then Achilles, their greatest warrior, is killed.CHORUS D: When Achilles was a baby, his mother, the sea goddess Thetis, dunked him in the magical River Styx. This protected his body from injury. But she held him by the heel to dunk him.

The waters never touched that part of his body, so it wasn’t protected. When Paris—the Trojan prince Helen ran off with—shoots an arrow that hits Achilles’ heel, it kills him. Paris himself is killed soon after.CHORUS E: In the end, the crafti­ness of Odysseus, one of the Greek kings, is what turns the tide for the Greeks.ODYSSEUS: Listen, men! Inside the walls of Troy, there’s a statue of the goddess Athena. Legend has it that Troy will not fall as long as that statue is safe inside.

So I’m sneaking into the city in disguise to get it.CHORUS A: That night, Odysseus encounters Helen inside Troy’s walls.HELEN: Stranger, may I help you?ODYSSEUS: No thank you, ma’am. All is well.HELEN: You speak strangely. Where are you from?ODYSSEUS: Oh, here and there.HELEN: Wait. I know that voice. Odysseus, it’s you!ODYSSEUS: Shh! Don’t raise an alarm.HELEN: Don’t worry. Now that Paris is dead, there’s no reason for me to stay here.

I’ll help you, if you’ll help me escape from Troy.ODYSSEUS: I will. I’m here to snatch the sacred statue of Athena.HELEN: Follow me.CHORUS B: Odysseus smuggles Helen—along with the statue—out of Troy. What happened on july 11 in history. But his boldest plan to defeat Troy is yet to come. The tale of the Trojan War has made its mark on modern English. Here are a few phrases that originated from the story:. Achilles’ heel: A person’s weakness, as in “Zoey wants to make the basketball team, but missing free throws is her Achilles’ heel.” Also shorthand for a tendon located in the lower leg. Trojan horse: Some­thing that looks good, but brings trouble.

For example, a computer program that seems to do something helpful but is designed to cause damage while it runs. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts: An expression that means “Don’t trust a present from an enemy—it might just be a trick.” In other words, “it may be too good to be true.”. The Aegean Sea, which the Greeks would have crossed to wage their war on Troy thousands of years ago, is today a scene of life-and-death drama.

Now, however, the flow of people is to Greece, not from it.In the past two years, hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking refuge from war, poverty, and political instability in Africa and the Middle East have made their way to Europe by crossing the Aegean and Mediterranean in crowded, unsafe boats. Greece has been the main arrival point. Between January 1 and August 18 this year alone, more than 162,000 refugees landed in Greece. Another 3,000 died or were lost during the dangerous sea journey.Unlike the Greeks who stormed Troy, the refugees are seeking safety, not war.

Though no towering wall blocks their entry, they still face many obstacles—including the reluctance of many European countries to take them in.