Subject: More a fan of the mythology itself.
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Posted on: 2010-09-04 01:19:00 UTC
The movie was okay. Either way, that fic sounds awful. Someone kill it dead, please.
Subject: More a fan of the mythology itself.
Author:
Posted on: 2010-09-04 01:19:00 UTC
The movie was okay. Either way, that fic sounds awful. Someone kill it dead, please.
Maybe you shouldn't look at this:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2868560/1/Forever_Love
Summary: Hector and Andromache's daughter, Evangelia, had always put all before her country. Achilles had put all before his desire for immortality. As these two great warriors come together, will thier love survive everything? Even death?
I mistrust anybody who spells words in their summary wrong.
~X.B.
I don't think the author's very good at figures of speech. It should be "put (her country/his desire for immortality) before all", I'm pretty sure.
Also, was Evangelia a common Greek and/or Trojan name? Somehow I'm slightly doubtful on that score.
The movie was okay. Either way, that fic sounds awful. Someone kill it dead, please.
I am not a very big and this still scares me.
This is just a list of things I spotted that bug me:
1) It's Peninsula of Haemus or Chersónēsos tou Haímou if you want to stay in Greek, not Balkan Peninsula. That term was first used in the late 1400s and was not common until the 1800s.
2) Andromache was not a daughter of Zuse, the old thunderbolt normally did not favor his mortal offspring, and he would never give them or their decedents immortality.
3) Evangelia is a rare variant Evangeline. Evangeline is an old Greek name, but not that old.
4) Can't prove it, but fairly sure Damien is a modern name. it does have French/Greek origins, but I cannot find a reference connecting it to Troy.
And this was just in the first 300 words.
Then again I cannot talk much considering I like a Harry Potter Firefly crossover. In my defense it is well written and, as impossible as that may sound, stays loyal to both source materials.
Damien/Damian is from Greek Δαμιανός, and there are at least three famous ancient Greeks and an early Christian martyr with the name.
Also, as far as Zeus never giving his mortal descendants immortality, there are conflicting accounts, but at least one version of the story of Helen of Troy, daughter of Zeus and the mortal Leda, has her being brought to Mount Olympus after returning from Troy with Menelaus.