Classical Mythology Movie Analysis

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Does the movie named Troy and the book called the ‘Classical Mythology’ has a comparison and contrast of the setting of the story that involve in the war between the Trojan and the Greek? It does have a good difference and similarity between the setting of the story in the movie and the book like for starters the similarity for the setting of the story about agreeing to one day truce. The one day truce is an agreement between the Trojan and Greek after the first battle in the war between them to allow both sides to have permission to take the dead solider that died to be buried. As for the difference in the setting of the story is that the film shows the dead soldier of the Greek being burned to ashes instead the book explain that the Greek soldier was being buried. The critiques of this movie called Troy and the book called the ‘Classical Mythology’ with a poem called the Homer epic about the Iliad that contain a contrast and comparison for the setting of the story. A good comparison between the movie and book that has a similar setting …show more content…
The Troy movie and the ‘Classical Mythology’ book contain a Homer epic poem about the Iliad that contain some difference and similarity for the setting of the following story about the Greek and Trojan War. The Greek and Trojan War have a detail about the culture and religion for burying the dead soldier or burning the dead soldier into ashes in order to prevent anyone from mistreating the dead. Even though the setting of the following of the story that involve in the war between the Greek and Trojan War is different for both the movie called Troy and ‘Classical Mythology’ book. Hopefully the setting of the story in both Troy Movie and ‘Classical Mythology’ book will have the same setting in the following story about the Greek and Trojan

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