First Edition Iliad

[Marshwarble]

The Boy Next Door features a Hardback first edition of the Iliad. (Not only didn't they have books, Homer may not have even wrote it down!) Any other literature disasters in films-apart from adaption disasters?

[Mosaic]

Shockingly, the Roman cavalry shown in the Ridley Scott film Gladiator are clearly using stirrups.
It spoilt it all for me.

[dannyk13]

The hardback edition is of the Samuel Butler translation of the Iliad not the Iliad itself.

[jno]

not literature, but I was watching an old film about Captain Kidd, with Charles Laughton in it, the other day, and his ship sailed past Tower Bridge a couple of centuries before it was built. I wonder if they had to get thousands of men to pull the ropes to raise the bridge for pirates to sail through.

[jno]

no way, dannyk, the title page clearly said "Copyright 1000BC".

[dannyk13]

The copyright would belong to Homer

[Peter Pedant]

Golly I thought first edition - 900BC

When we found elegiacs by a little know poet Gallus, thinking about it it was probably a first edition
http://classics.uc.edu/~parker/paleography%20files/gallus.html
[ really - he was forced to commit suicide wh kinda ended the stream of lyrics ]

I thought Thos Cromwell was using a mobile when Thos More walked in to a rooom at Wolf Hall.

? Piccy of John signing the magna carta - he didnt sign it, a flunkie sealed it on his behalf

Stephen Fry et al ( Emma Thompson ) when they collected Oscars en semble read out a diary of Jane Austen - probably collecing an oscar for Emma or Pride and Prej...... oops Jane Austen didnt keep a diary .....

Shakespeare did it - you mean Cleo sexts Anthony in a come on over message on her mobile ?
well er no he refers to the Jesuits in the porters speech in Macbeth set in the 12 century or threeabouts

There's a lot of it about !

[Peter Pedant]

// The hardback edition is of the Samuel Butler translation of the Iliad not the Iliad itself.//


I wondered if it were a copy of Pope's translation which I think is 1740
( and worth a few hundred )

[Peter Pedant]

Barry Lyndon

which is very well done - Kubrick uses wide angle lenses to capture the lighting from the candles without any other illumination

but in a duel scene in the garding - they fight around a fountain which has a ordnance survey 'T' on it

[Marshwarble]

The book looked 20th century to me.

[Marshwarble]

"The copyright belongs to Homer"

He seemed to follow the histories of Eusebius and maybe others. Who knows perhaps Homer really was a doofus?