The Iliad and Troy

I really liked The Iliad and plan on reading it again sometime when i'm at work or actually have time to sit down and enjoy the whole story of Achilles and the two armies in the book. The hardest part I have had with the story have been remembering all the names and deciphering who is who and which names go to which sides and so on, but over all I think it was a very interesting story.

So I just finished my film review for Troy. When I was doing this i was just thinking about the cloths and armor they wore back then. The cloths seemed to be made of wool or cotton or something like that but seemed that if we had that same stuff these days everyone would be walking around with rashes on their butts from the coarse fabric! And then the armor...in the movie Troy arrows just went right thru and nothing seemed to even be slowed down by the stuff they wore to protect themselves. The only usefull thing they had on them was the shield and that was so big that it took all their strength to haul around and forever to swing around to protect yourself if you were in the heat of the battle. I just thought this was kind of funny I guess and wrote a little about it in my review.