Fragments from a

This piece has been a work in progress for many years now. It was begun as a result of seeing the movie Troy, and some subsequent discussion of how truthful/accurate/good the film was, especially in light of actual Homeric Greek history and so forth, plus doing some research for my own curiosity on how the story of Troy has been told and re-told through the years. Lydgate's medieval retelling was particularly fascinating if rather turgid poetically.

I started writing this as a way of focusing on Hector's story (Hector being my favorite character, even before seeing him played by the excellent and decorative Eric Bana). A not inconsiderable chunk of it was written on the fourth of July, during the lull between helping set up a fireworks display (checking all the fuses, pounding sand for the mortars, fun stuff like that) and subsequently helping set them off. Somewhere in a box is a notebook that has notes taken that day, and snippets that I did not get typed in.