If you were raised in western culture and you heard any old
stories that did not necessarily have chapter and verse and some red letters in
there, you were sure to be familiar with the story of the Trojan War as
tradition tells us was told by homer in the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Even if you don’t know the whole story (Trojan guy steals Greek wife, Greeks
get mad and spend 10 years fighting outside of Troy (spoiler alert) then they
leave but have a small army inside of a horse that the Trojans drag inside so
the Trojans lose. Then the Greeks lead by Odysseus take another ten years to
get back to Ithaca – a record in not asking for directions only surpassed by
Moses. The he gets back home and has to beat up the guys that have been hanging
out at his house waiting around to hook up with his wife who has been leading
those guys on the whole time), then you know some of these parts of it – some of
the more famous I left from the summary).
So there have been lots of versions of the text, but I like
this version because it is able to make the story new by giving it not a contemporary
by putting it in the current era as a setting, but using the story as a base to
help understand the soldiers in current predicaments. It shows that though the
stories can change, the soldiers over time have kept telling different versions
of the same stories. It just seems that modern versions have fewer Cyclopes.
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