Please Suspend Your Disbelief
She plays a Greek soldier, you know.
After viewing this video, I very much doubt Page will be shown walking in The Odyssey. pic.twitter.com/UQBH4xdRjm
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A mighty warrior. And a skilled deceiver.
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Open thread, me hearties.
But it’s her relative height that is jarringly inappropriate. And her (non-)muscularity.
EDIT: But of course you knew that and were merely offering a bit of interesting historical trivia.
The all powerful internet is saying he was involved in deceiving the Trojans with the horsey subterfuge. So, it’s not in either of Homer’s epics. But it’s Odyssey adjacent. It’s perhaps Nolan doing a ‘previously on Homer’ reel for those watching for the first time.
The actual Odyssey does refer to the Trojan horse incident, and interestingly, there is supposedly a lost Ancient Greek narrative poem
in which this is the main theme (so Simon presumably figures greatly in it). Maybe Homer quotes it in the passage where Odysseus meets the bard. IDK.
Per Wikipedia¹, Sinon (or Sinopos) was mentioned in Virgil’s Aeneid and other accounts.
Bronze Age women are estimated to have ranged from 4’9″ to 5’6″ so Page is about average height for a woman at the time. Still below the average of 5’5″ for men of the time.
¹Salt available upon request
Well, as I said, I read it a long time ago and most of it has slipped my recollection. I just keep seeing the hype…or maybe anti-hype…about this thing which seems to be most controversial regarding what would be main characters from the Iliad that just happen to be Helen and Achilles and now Sinon. Because
PamelaPenelope has a dream…or something…again, I forget. I have zero interest in seeing this, though I might go back and watch the one about Troy that iirc was called Troy. Which thank God is easy to spell and even uses the letter ‘y’ in a conventional fashion. Was that really any good? I seem to recall it getting panned but from what I see out of Hollywood, and most anything else these days, that could have been because Brad Pitt wouldn’t give some reviewer a BJ.I know I’m repeating myself but one of the cool things about Jeff Wright’s podcast is that he starts at the beginning. The Iliad begins in medias res, because the audience is presumed to already know the story. Wright digs into the other myths and poems to give you the full story up to where The Iliad starts.
As for Pitt’s Troy: it was a contractual obligation for him and he didn’t want to make it, and that’s obvious on screen. It’s not bad, got some good lines in it, takes a lot of liberties. Keep the popcorn handy.
And it’s The Iliad because in the original Attic Greek the name of the city was Ilion. And its Ilion and not Ilyon because of some subtleties of how Attic Greek vowels are transliterated into English.
“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”