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By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com Guides to Poetry

Poets sing of war

Sunday May 16, 2004
from U.S. News & World Report:
From Homer to Hollywood
With the appearance of the blockbuster movie version of Troy, Josh Fischman takes a look back at how poets from Homer & Virgil to Chaucer & Shakespeare have told the story of the war between the Greeks & the Trojans.

Related resources:
Our library of links to classical poets
Our collection of classic war poems
The Boys of Troy” -- Actors Brad Pitt and Eric Bana and director Wolfgang Petersen discuss the language of the film adaptation at About Action-Adventure Movies.

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