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Question: Anyone have any ideas of how the iliad is like Star Wars. In episode 4,5,6.


Answers: Anyone have any ideas of how the iliad is like Star Wars. In episode 4,5,6.
Well, there both take place during a war.

I guess some character similarities could be:
Priam (king of the Trojans) and Obi Wan Kenobi
Hector (son of Priam) and Luke Skywalker
Achilles (Greek warrior) and Darth Vader
Agamemnon (King of Mycenae) and the Emperor
but these are all stretching it, they only have miniscule character similarities, nothing too major.

George Lucas does list Greek and Roman mythology as influences on the stories.
The History Channel says this:
Both epics deal with legendary events that were believed to have occurred many centuries before their composition. The Iliad is set in the final year of the Trojan War, which forms the background for its central plot, the story of the wrath of the Greek hero Achilles. Insulted by his commander in chief Agamemnon, the young warrior Achilles withdraws from the war, leaving his fellow Greeks to suffer terrible defeats at the hands of the Trojans. Achilles rejects the Greeks' attempts at reconciliation, but he finally relents to some extent, allowing his companion Patroclus to lead his troops in his place. Patroclus is slain, and Achilles, filled with fury and remorse, turns his wrath against the Trojans, whose leader, Hector (son of King Priam), he kills in single combat. The poem closes as Achilles surrenders the corpse of Hector to Priam for burial, recognizing a certain kinship with the Trojan king as they both face the tragedies of mortality and bereavement.
"Star Wars resonates out of the best of our classics: Beowulf...Homer...the Bible."
---Dan Rather on Star Wars
There are a lot of them but when you get right down to it it's a "Hero's Journey"


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