Greco-Latin epics constitute the pillar of Western culture. Like so many literary works, they have been translated into cinematographic language. A review of the films that have dealt with the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Argonautics and the Aeneid since the second half of the 20th century allows us to assess the degree of fidelity to the original texts, not only regarding the plot, but also in terms of significance and meaning. To do so, I will first introduce each of the epic narratives before drawing a parallel between the plots of the source texts and those of the related movies, as well as the effect produced on the readers or the viewers.

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Las epopeyas clásicas y el cine: cuidado con los griegos y sus regalos

The aim of this paper is to verify whether the archaic mentality of the Iliad remains in Troy . Our research, helped by Mircea Eliade studies, shows the way in which the suppression of divinity in favor of an historical review precludes the permanence of the old mentality in the film. The rewriting of the myth from the categories of modern thought (philosophically speaking) almost completely transformed not only the personality of heroes, whose passions are the true efficient cause of the facts, but also the idea of war as a context of the story.

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Arturo Encinas

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La Ilíada y Troya: la percepción moderna del relato homérico