Singing The Rage of Troy

Rage -- Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles,
murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,
hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls,
great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion
feasts for the dogs and birds,
and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end.
Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed,
Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

-- The Iliad, as translated by Robert Fagles from Homer

- Photograph of Brad Pitt as Achilles in Wolfgang Petersen's film, Troy [Via MCN]
- And a different kind of rage: Disgruntled employees on the set of Troy stole various items, like "2003 Honda four-wheel motorcycle designed for use on sand dunes, a chain saw and an air compressor," claiming them as "backpay" for wages they allegedly did not receive.
- Plus, Mother Nature's rage had held up filming

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And hundreds- at least tens- of New Yorkers will remember those lines from the first day of Columbia University's freshman Literature Humanities class.

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Or from years of Latin class in high school.

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