Referenced By / The Iliad

Adaptations

Film

• Helen of Troy
• Troy

Video Games

• Warriors: Legends of Troy
• A Total War Saga: TROY

Literature

• The Song of Achilles
• The Troy Saga

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Shout Outs, Allusions and other References

Comic Books

• ODY-C folds in story elements from several epics, including the The Illiad, Thousand and One Nights and The Aeneid.
• In Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia a scene between Batman and Wonder Woman directly references the attempted supplication of Lkcaon to Achilles, and Achilles subsequent refusal.

Live-Action TV

• The season 2 finale of The Mandalorian sees the titular character remove his helmet as he says goodbye to the child he's been protecting over the course of the two seasons. Evoking Hector removing his helmet so his scared son can see his face one last time before he goes off for his duel with Achilles.

Video Games

• Journey (2012): The One-Woman Wail credits song, "I Was Born For This", consists of lyrics not only from many different languages but derived from several classic sources:
  Stat sua cuique dies
  To each his day is given (Latin, The Aeneid)
  Mæl is me to feran
  Time is it for me to go (Old English, Beowulf)
  Aleto men moi nostos
  Lost is my homecoming (Greek, The Iliad)
  C’est pour cela que je suis née
  I was born for this (French, Joan of Arc)
  Kono michi ya, Yuku hito nashini^note though the singer pronounces nashini as 'nishini'
  Kono michi ya, Aki no kure
  Along this road, goes no one
  Along this road, this Autumn eve (Japanese, Matsuo Basho)
  C’est pour cela que je suis née, ne me plaignez pas
  C’est pour cela que je suis née
  I was born for this, do not pity me
  I was born for this (French, Joan of Arc)

Web Comics

• Hark! A Vagrant: "Rage of Achilles" depicts Scamander being blandly unimpressed, disgusted and annoyed with Achilles filling his river with torn up corpses in his blind rage at Patroclus' death. He's even less impressed that the Olympians are protecting the violent idiot.

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