[A. E. Stallings]

...The Movie!

Having just seen the Brad Pitt vehicle, I can safely say that familiarity with the Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid in no way prepared me for many of the, er, ingengious plot twists. Am trying to imagine what the pitch was to the Director. Or what the Director said to the Script Writers. Or what the Script writers would have said to Homer. Or Briseis: What is my motivation in this scene?

I won't even go into the creative locales. Who knew that Mycenae was right on the sea? And where is the port of Sparta? (This did occasion much entertainment with the Greek audience, however.)

I think there is fodder for some fun verse here...