Plot
It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband, Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad."
Keywords: achilles'-heel, achilles-tendon, achilles-tendon-cut, adulterous-wife, adultery, aegean-sea, ancient-civilization, ancient-greece, ancient-troy, ancient-world
For Honor
For Victory
For Love
For Destiny
For Passion
For Troy
Agamemnon: Peace is for women and the weak.
Andromache: [to Hector] I can't imagine life without you.
Priam: I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest.
Glaucus: [the Appolonians are making their last stand] Soldiers of Troy! You men are warriors! To lead you has been my honor! [to Paris] My prince! The boatman waits for us! I say, we make him wait a little longer!::[Trojans attack as the Greeks break down the last barricade]
Agamemnon: I see you're not hiding behind your high walls. Valiant of you. Ill-advised, but valiant.::Hector: You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home.::Agamemnon: We've come too far, Prince Hector.::Menelaus: Prince? What prince? What son of a king would accept a man's hospitality, eat his food, drink his wine, embrace him in friendship, and then steal his wife in the middle of the night?::Paris: The sun was shining when your wife left you.::Menelaus: She's up there, watching, isn't she? Good. I want her to watch you die.::Agamemnon: Not yet, brother. Look around you, Hector. I brought all the warriors of Greece to your shores.::Nestor: You can still save Troy, young prince.::Agamemnon: I have two wishes. If you grant them, no more of your people need die. First, you must give Helen back to my brother. Second, Troy must submit to my command, to fight for me whenever I call.::Hector: You want me to look upon your army and tremble? Well I see them. I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.::Agamemnon: Careful boy, my mercy has limits.::Hector: And I've seen the limits of your mercy and I tell you now, no son of Troy will ever submit to a foreign ruler.::Agamemnon: Then every son of Troy shall die.
[Paris cowardly bows out of a duel with Menelaus, leaving everyone aghast, especially Menelaus]::Menelaus: [shouts to Helen] Is this what you left me for?
[Eyes closed, Briseis has blade against his throat]::Achilles: Do it. [Briseis doesn't do anything, but only stares at him. Achilles opens his eyes] Do it. Nothing is easier.::Briseis: Aren't you afraid?::Achilles: Everyone dies, whether today or fifty years from now.::Briseis: If I don't, you'll kill more men.::Achilles: Many.
Odysseus: [Achilles throws his spear into a nearby tree] Your reputation for hospitality is fast becoming legend.
Agamemnon: [approaches king] Good day for the crows.::Triopas: Remove your army from my land.::Agamemnon: Why, I like your land, I think we'll stay. I like your soldiers too.::Triopas: They won't fight for you.::Agamemnon: That's what the Messenians said, and the Acardians, and the Opeians, now they all fight for me.::Triopas: You can't have the whole world, Agamemnon. It's too big, even for you.::Agamemnon: I don't want to watch another massacre. Let's settle this war in the old manner. Your best fighter against my best.::Triopas: And if my man wins?::Agamemnon: We'll leave Thessaly for good.::Triopas: Boagrius!::[cheers from Thessalian army. Boagrius comes out from the centre of the army]::Agamemnon: Achilles!::[silence]::Triopas: Boagrius has this effect on many heroes.::Agamemnon: Be careful who you insult, old king.::Greek Soldier: My king, Achilles is not with the army.::Agamemnon: Where is he?::Greek Soldier: I sent a boy to look for him.
Achilles: If I hurt you, it's not what I wanted
Hippasus (Ancient Greek: Ἵππασος, Híppasos; 5th century BC) of Metapontum in Magna Graecia, was a Pythagorean philosopher. Little is known about his life or his beliefs, but he is sometimes credited with the discovery of the existence of irrational numbers. The discovery of irrational numbers is said to have been shocking to the Pythagoreans, and Hippasus is supposed to have drowned at sea (apparently as a punishment from the gods). However, the few ancient sources which describe this story either do not mention Hippasus by name or alternatively tell us that Hippasus drowned because he revealed how to construct a dodecahedron inside a sphere. The discovery of irrationality is not specifically ascribed to Hippasus by any ancient writer. Some modern scholars though have suggested that he discovered the irrationality of √2, which it is believed was discovered around the time that he lived.
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Julius Sumner Miller (May 17, 1909 – April 14, 1987) was an American physicist and television personality. He is best known for his work on children's television programs in North America and Australia.
Julius Sumner Miller was born in Billerica, Massachusetts the youngest of nine children. His father was Latvian, his Lithuanian mother spoke 12 languages.
Miller graduated with a Philosophy degree and a Master's in Physics from Boston University in 1933 but due to the Depression worked as a butler for a wealthy Boston doctor for the next two years during which time he married the doctor's maid, Alice Brown; they were to have no children, but he was to go on to reach millions of children through his popular science programs.
After making over 700 applications for employment, in 1937 he was offered a place in the Physics Department of Dillard University, a private, black liberal arts college in New Orleans. During World War II he worked as a civilian physicist for the U.S. Army Signal Corps while holding fellowships in physics at the universities of Idaho and Oklahoma and was a Ford Foundation Fellow at UCLA. In 1950 he enrolled in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J. where he was a student of Albert Einstein. He became a lifelong friend of Einstein and went on to amass a collection of Einstein memorabilia that included Einstein's birth certificate. Miller also taught at Princeton but disliked large institutions, leaving in 1952 to join the Physics Department at the then small El Camino College in Torrance, California (1952–1974), to maximum student enrollments due to his great popularity and where he was instantly recognizable by his casual hair and horn-rimmed spectacles.