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Please check out my new design of playing cards inspired by ancient Greek please my kickstarter site thank you.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/falloftroy/the-fall-of-troy-epic-pl...
Inspired by ancient greek design, this hand-illustrated poker deck displays characters and scenes from the legendary Trojan War.
Why the Trojan War?
The legendary Fall of Troy story has entertained audiences for thousands of years. For centuries the tale was passed down verbally until Homer committed part of it to the written word. The Iliad focuses on brilliant Achilles, and his supreme rage in the last year of the Trojan War. Homer's epic poem is the first of countless histories, dramatizations, songs, books, films, paintings, etc, to be inspired by the Acheans' ten year assault on Ilios. Works such as, Aeschylus' trilogy, the Oresteia and William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida have recycled the themes and ideas of the Trojan War throughout antiquity. The homage continues even in this modern age with songs like "Achilles Last Stand" by Led Zeppelin and films like Troy, directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Brad Pitt as Achilles and Eric Bana as Hector.
