Talk:Achilleis (trilogy)

Aquila Theatre Company's "Wrath of Achilles"
This theatre company that specializes in Greek classical stuff produced the play a few years ago -- its based on Iliad 16-19. Does that warrant a mention here? Or would it belong on the Iliad page? Or both?Ifnkovhg 21:11, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I did some cleanup on this. Shouldn't the title be changed?Ifnkovhg (talk) 03:49, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

The move and the article
Just a note on why I moved this page from Achilles (play) to Achilleis (trilogy). This was, firstly, no single "play" called the Achilles, but, as the entry explains, Achilleis is the modern designation for a trilogy of plays. Since, when the scholarship refers to this trilogy by name it is invariably with Achilleis, this title is to be preferred. The source of the title Achilles appears to be a misunderstanding in the popular media, and one that we should not repeat here.

Another set of misunderstandings can be found in the buzz around the modern adaptation/envisioning that is given undue weight in this article. No new fragments from "mummies" were discovered toward the end of the 20th century&mdash;most of the fragments came out of the ground like a potato, scraps of ancient texts found in the rubbish heaps of Oxyrhynchus that were never made into cartonnage or "mummy stuffing". The statements in the article are a synthesis of an interesting fact about the discovery of some classical texts and the press release hype that attended the Cyprus production. In fact, most of the extant fragments had been published during the first half of the century. Someone at some point inserted this appropriately incredulous sentence: "The fragments purported to have been discovered have not even yet been reported in the academic press, which would be a remarkable omission." I hope to work on this in the near future (perhaps even later today), but I note these facts here in case someone knowledgeable in the topic notices my move and happens by. The Cardiff Chestnut (talk) 12:10, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I've trimmed down the bit about the Cyprus production, excising the erroneous info about the ancient text that really has nothing to do with that production, and updating the info about preformance. In the process I also removed some refs that derived from the same press release but added nothing other than misapprehensions that further muddy the water. The Cardiff Chestnut (talk) 15:02, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

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