Thoughts...

[doara]

I saw Troy (the new one in theaters) today. I have mixed feelings about the way the film was made. First off: I very much liked the film's aesthetics. The men looked manly, the women were sexy, and the battles were great fun. I liked the fatalist spin given to Achilles in this film, a sort of "I kill people. I didn't choose this path, its just

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[yhaqoret]

I was teaching The Iliad right before the movie came out and rushed like mad to finish before all those young minds rushed to the movies to have their first experience of the story handed to them on a silver screen.

Thanks again for picking up George today!

[ambermae]

If you want to complain about Troy (or watch other people complain about Troy), I highly recommend the classics community. They're intelligent and vociferous and they crack me up.

On the topic of Andrew Jackson, it's interesting to me to note the difference in the way that Native American issues are handled in North Carolina and New York (at least from an archaeological standpoint). In New York, if an archaeology crew is testing a proposed road site, for instance, and encounters a Native American site, that road project is as good as scrapped. At the very least, the project is tied up for months while the tribes are consulted, artifacts are moved or routed around, etc. In North Carolina, on the other hand, that site is pretty much done for. The road is going to be built anyway, so you better go ahead and salvage what you can. Someone once explained to me that this was a direct result of Andrew Jackson's policies, but it's a shame that they can't have been rectified by now.