Trojan War Who to play War With

By: Zach Maderski

In the play The Hysterical History of the Trojan War Zeus is having a talk with Ares because he wants to play war with Athena.  After they found out who to play war with, so they picked the Spartans and the Trojans. Once they go all of the people Zeus said that he got a text message  saying that someone needed a thunder storm and had to leave.

In the modern version of the Trojan War story things are a lot different than the play version.  In the original version story they didn’t talk about what the gods were doing before the war but I’m pretty shore that Zeus doesn’t  have a cell phone.  Also I don’t think that Ares even thought he is the god of war wants to play war just for fun. Plus they didn’t even have pencils and papers, they only had a piece of stone and a chisel.

Some of the things from that scene are still the same or is true. In the play Zeus said that he had to leave the discussion because someone needed a thunder storm.  According to the Greeks,  Zeus was the god of lighting.  Also in the Trojan war story Zeus didn’t really do much in the war and it never really talked about him much during the war just like in the play.

There are also some differences between the story and the play, for example in the play Zeus said that he got a text message but back then they wouldn’t of had cell phones. Also in the original story there was no discussion between gods about wanting to play war and who was going to be on who’s side.

I really don’t like the remake of this story because there are a lot of events in the play that are kind of funny but or not really realistic for that time in history.  I mean the gods wouldn’t have had cell phones or pencil and paper.  Also when it got to the battle it was really boring and it got through the whole war in not even a whole page.  Overall I think that it was good but it wasn’t that realistic to that kind of time period.