It narrates a Mycenaean legend located in the 13th century BC, it tells an episode from the epic of the rich and strategic city of Troy, or Ilion. It is the poem of the wrath of Achilles, son of a mortal and goddess and the most outstanding of the Greek combatants, in his desire for heroism and his desire for revenge. The poem of a great war that affects a multitude of human beings, victims of the personal confrontation of a small group of heroes in their particular struggle for power. The song of pain and suffering, of the fall of values and of a refined and aristocratic way of life, which ends in death or slavery. But it is also the exaltation of the beauty of the fascination for action and the achievement of glory.
It narrates a Mycenaean legend located in the 13th century BC, it tells an episode from the epic of the rich and strategic city of Troy, or Ilion. It is the poem of the wrath of Achilles, son of a mortal and goddess and the most outstanding of the Greek combatants, in his desire for heroism and his desire for revenge. The poem of a great war that affects a multitude of human beings, victims of the personal confrontation of a small group of heroes in their particular struggle for power. The song of pain and suffering, of the fall of values and of a refined and aristocratic way of life, which ends in death or slavery. But it is also the exaltation of the beauty of the fascination for action and the achievement of glory.
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