Accents in Troy

In the course of my recent adventures, I found this rather interesting statement from Andrew Jacks, the dialect coach who worked on Troy, in which he describes the efforts made to have a kind of accent continuity across both Trojans and Achaeans - and the importance of a divide between them. I haven't seen Troy, so I can't really comment - though I'm still disappointed by the Achilles/Patroclus 'cousin' thing.

In other news, debate is starting to kick up about Dr. Jay Kennedy's new musical interpretation of Plato*, both in the media, and in the classicists mailing list. I downloaded his work to read, but haven't yet had the time; in any case, I'm interested to see what the expert' make of it. My favourite media appropriation has been the Daily Mail, who ran a picture of a bust of 'Plato' with Zenon clearly inscribed on it. Their headline 'British scientist uncovers 'secret messages' hidden in Plato's ancient text' also shows a stunning lack of attention to detail - Kennedy is American. To be fair, it's the Daily Mail.

*structurally, of course, though if he wished to take Plato to the West End, I wouldn't complain.