# Illead vs Troy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illead-vs-troy/246893>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 25, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illead-vs-troy/246893 "2004-05-25T00:18:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illead-vs-troy/246893/41 "2004-05-27T23:17:00Z")

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> [@pravnik](#):
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> Ajax didn’t get killed by Hector either.

When I saw this happen in the movie, I had to resist the temptation to blurt out:

“Oh my God, he killed Ajax! You bastard!”

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illead-vs-troy/246893/42 "2004-05-27T23:37:35Z")

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I’ve said it before, but it needs to be said again (primarily because nobody appears to have taken any notice the first time):

[Use of the proper translation could have resulted in a wonderful film.](http://www.teemings.com/issue04/idiad.html)

All hail **bibliophage** , bard.

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illead-vs-troy/246893/43 "2004-05-28T01:37:51Z")

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I was a Greek Myth buff back in elementary school, never was much for the Trojan War because that was too much like history _S_- anyway, just having a vague knowledge of all this, I enjoyed the movie (I did know about & missed Cassandra & Clytemnestra & the real death of Agammemnon). If I’d been more aware of the actual stories, I might have been irritated more, but as such I thought it was a terrific movie standing by itself. (Similar to how Van Helsing was a fun movie for me as long as I totally disconnected it from both the original classic monster novels & even the original Universal films.)

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**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illead-vs-troy/246893/44 "2004-05-31T06:16:21Z")

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> [@Slithy Tove](#):
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> Also, if it’s ok for me to slip in a slight rant about the movie: I’m really getting sick of the “wailing Arab woman” background music that was used for the burning of Troy. It was pretentious the first time I heard it in a movie, and it’s really getting tiresome.

That’s actually a wailing Australian woman named [Lisa Gerrard](http://www.lisagerrard.com/), former vocalist for Dead Can Dance. Pretty much anytime you hear that music, it’s her or someone trying to sound like her. I think she’s pretty awesome.

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