Tag: lliad

Categories
TV

Troy: Fall of a City

WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 00:00:01 on 13/02/2018 - Programme Name: Troy - Fall of a City - TX: n/a - Episode: Troy - Fall of a City generics (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: Hecuba (FRANCES O’CONNOR), Priam (DAVID THRELFALL), Paris (LOUIS HUNTER), Helen (BELLA DAYNE), Andromache (CHLOE PIRRIE), Hector (TOM WESTON-JONES) - (C) Wild Mercury Productions - Photographer: Graham Bartholomew

As a Classics student and keen fanatic of mythology, you can imagine my anticipation upon hearing that the BBC was producing a historical-drama series. Their interpretation of Homer’s ‘Iliad’, Troy: Fall of a City, is far from a Greek tragedy. The series opens by portraying the prelude to the legendary Trojan War. A Trojan prince, Paris […]