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What was the name of Achilles' (Brad Pitt) 50 man army of soliders in Troy?

2007-03-17 18:10:03 · 3 answers · asked by Max S 1 in Entertainment & Music Movies

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Hi, the name of the warriors under the command of Achiles in "Troy" is Myrmidons.
This is what I found about them in Wikipedia:

The Myrmidons (or Myrmidones Μυρμιδόνες) were an ancient nation of Greek mythology. In Homer's Iliad, the Myrmidons are the soldiers commanded by Achilles.[1] Their eponymous ancestor was Myrmidon, a king of Phthiotis who was a son of Zeus and "wide-ruling" Eurymedousa. An etiological myth of their origins, simply expanding upon their supposed etymology— the name in Classical Greek was interpreted as "ant-people", from murmekes, "ants"— was first mentioned by Ovid, in Metamorphoses: in Ovid's telling, the Myrmidons were simple worker ants on the island of Aegina.

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It's always nice to help!

2007-03-18 02:48:29 · answer #1 · answered by Srdjan 2 · 0 0

Menanaouts

2007-03-17 18:17:49 · answer #2 · answered by arty p 1 · 0 2

the Myrmidons

2007-03-17 18:17:51 · answer #3 · answered by asso 4 · 1 0

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