Does Achilles die in Troy: Fall of a City?

Not necessarily from Ethiopia - Ethiopian was the term used for black people generally in ancient Greece. who's allied with Troy (he's also usually absent in adaptations, even although he is even described as nearly Achilles' equal in skill at arms, getting killed while fighting him), so there's precedent for this. Additionally, in the ancient world skin color wasn't the most important marker of nationality, your language, ascendance and customs were,note For example, in Aeschylus's Suppliants, the Danaids - Egyptian women who actually descend from the Greek Io through the Argive lineage - are initially assumed to be non-Greek because of their exotical clothing, not their dark skin. Everyone immediately accepts their Greekness when they observe the ritual of supplication. so a black person eventually becoming a full-fledged Greek in the semi-mythical age the series is set (that is, before the rise of the complicated Greek concept of citizenship) would have been theoretically possible.

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  • Amazon Brigade: The Amazons, naturally, are a group of warrior women that fight on the Trojans' side.
  • Ancient Grome: Mixed references to Artemis (Greek) and Diana (Roman) as goddesses of the hunt and moon, as well as the omission of Selene (Greek goddess of the moon) suggest a muddled understanding of Greco-Roman mythology.
  • Anti-Villain: Odysseus doesn't like the atrocities his fellow Greeks end up committing, but he's forced to comply out of loyalty. His occasionally harsh tactics are also motivated by a desire to end the war quickly, so he can go back to Ithaca.
  • Ascended Extra: Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen, appears and even has a secondary role. Aeneas also has a more prominent role and the series shows his survival.
  • Battle-Halting Duel: Between Hector and Patroclus, and also discussed by Achilles.
  • Better to Die than Be Killed: Queen Hecuba prefers to cut her wrists than let herself be taken as a slave by the Greeks.
  • Black Vikings: Many of the Trojan and Greek characters are portrayed by black actors, which wasn't true in reality of these peoples (although, of course, it's fictional to begin with). In fairness, being Mediterranean peoples, historical Greeks and Trojans would have had a definitively darker hue of skin compared to the white actors portraying them too, who are mostly of British or Irish stock.
  • Cassandra Truth: Not only Cassandra, but priest Litos as well know bringing Paris back was a huge mistake.
  • Colorblind Casting:
    • While Zeus, Athena and Artemis are all portrayed by black actors other relations of Zeus such as Aphrodite (either his daughter or aunt depending on the version), Helen (his daughter) and Hermes (his son) are all played by white actors.
    • Similarly while Achilles and his first cousin once removed Patroclus are both played by black actors, his paternal uncle's son Ajax, someone more closely related to him than Patroclus, is played by a white actor.
  • Combat by Champion: Menelaus challenges Paris to one, and unsurprisingly he beats the tar out of the prince. He would've killed him there and then had Paris not fled at the last moment.
  • Death by Adaptation: Played With regarding Astyanax's. Some tales say Odysseus kills him which happens in the finale, others that it was actually Neoptolemus (Achilles's son), but some say he stays alive and follows his mother, before founding a new Troy as an adult with Ascanius (Aeneas's son). Hecuba kills herself here rather than be Made a Slave, as her fate was in the original story.
  • Demoted to Extra: Ajax and Nestor have far less important roles compared to the original story.
  • Death of a Child: Odysseus is forced by Agamemnon to kill Astyanax, Hector and Andromache's baby son, by throwing him off the walls of Troy.
  • Did You Actually Believe...?: Menelaus' reaction when the Greek army arrives to ransack Troy even though Helen promised to leave with him if he lets Paris and the remaining Trojans live.
  • Divine Race Lift: Zeus is portrayed by a black actor, while normally of course he's shown looking Greek, though due to Colour Blind Casting, this only extends to a small portion of his relations.
  • Divine Intervention: The goddesses are shown giving their blessings to their respective champions, but as Zeus puts it, they can favor mortals, but they can't change their fates.
  • Downer Ending: The Trojans are massacred, the survivors enslaved. Achilles and Patroclus are dead. Odysseus, the only surviving Greek to have held on to any semblance of morality, is forced to murder a baby. And the series ends with the remaining Greeks simply sailing away while the Gods wander through the ruins.
  • Dramatic Irony: When the Greeks arrive at Troy, Agamemnon confidently declares they'll take the city in a couple of days, since, after all, the gods must repay his sacrifice of his own daughter. Viewers who know anything about the Trojan War know how wrong he is.
  • Enemy Mine: The Amazons don't like the Trojans very much, but they hate Greeks even more.
  • Fingore: During his fight with Achilles, Hector is defeated when the former strikes at his sword hand, cutting off his fingers in doing so.
  • Freudian Excuse: Andromache is initially hostile toward Helen mainly because Helen is a mother, who left her daughter behind when she fled, while Andromache herself is trying unsuccessfully to conceive. The fact that Helen abandoned a role that Andromache is desperately trying to assume feeds her resentment.
  • Get Out!: In the second episode, the two sides attempt negotiations. The Trojans know Paris screwed up and are willing to make concessions to the Greeks, as they don't actually want to have a war...but the economic demands the Greeks make are so insulting that the Trojans, even the ones who wanted to give Helen back, categorically reject them and order the Greeks out.
  • Heroic Suicide: Paris throws himself off a cliff to avert a prophecy which says he'll doom Troy (he's also distraught at his adopted father's death, which helps). The Amazons revived him though, but Aphrodite says it still counts since he was temporarily in the underworld. Obviously not, given the ending.
  • Human Sacrifice:
    • Agamemnon is forced to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis in order to allow his army to set sail.
    • Paris' attempted suicide can be seen that way as well.
  • Informed Flaw: Throughout the series, we are told what a horrible person Menelaus is and how he does not deserve Helen. Yet we never see any evidence of this. Instead, we are presented with a reasonable man, whose wife cheats on him and betrays him at every turn.
  • Jerk-to-Nice-Guy Plot: For the first few episodes, Paris is a selfish, immature, man-child who starts the war because he's horny and then runs away from any real responsibility. However, after his duel with Menelaus he goes on a spiritual journey that results in him becoming much more serious, focused, and dutiful.
  • Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Interestingly, Agamemnon does this at the start of his arc — after he sacrifices his daughter for the sake of the war, it becomes clear that he is then willing to do anything, commit any atrocity, in order to justify that, and drag the rest of the world down to his level.
  • Loophole Abuse: Menelaus promises on his honor that he'll let Paris and the remaining Trojans live if Helen willingly returns to him. When the other Greeks come to destroy the city anyway and Helen calls Menelaus a liar, he responds that he no longer has any honor to swear on.

    How does Achilles die in Troy: Fall of a City?

    The resulting fallout saw the treacherous Greeks break the agreed 12-day mourning truce. Then a rage-filled Achilles cut down half the Trojan army, defeated Penthesilea and the Amazons, and finally confronted Priam at the gates of Troy before being killed by Paris after taking an arrow to the heel.

    How did Troy: Fall of a City end?

    Menelaus' brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris' insult. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse.

    Does Troy: Fall of a City have Achilles?

    Yes, Achilles in Troy: Fall of a City is black. Good. However, speaking to Variety, writer David Farr has explained the character of Achilles is in itself a myth and that people should just settle down.

    Does Hector die in Troy: Fall of a City?

    Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense of Troy, killing countless Greek warriors. He was ultimately killed in single combat by Achilles, who later dragged his dead body around the city of Troy behind his chariot.