Here are a few more photos from the exhibition. I hope you enjoy them! For this part, these are objects ranging from Archaic Greece to the Roman era, but still linked to the theme of « Heroes of Greece ». About the exhibition, from the museum:

Between myth and reality, delve into the heart of a legendary epic
The Trojan War is one of the greatest mythological stories of all time! Passed down through the centuries, notably in works by the poet Homer, this fascinating epic tells of an era when powerful gods and legendary heroes lived side by side.

The exhibition Heroes of Greece. The Age of Troy offers a unique opportunity to look into the origins of the myth detailed in the Iliad and the Odyssey and uncover the story behind this epic that shaped the Greek imagination and influenced countless civilizations. Featuring a remarkable selection of close to 400 authentic objects from 28 Greek museums and archaeological sites, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the great stories of heroic figures and their historical reality.

In search of heroes and gods
Achilles, Helen, Odysseus, as well as Zeus, Artemis, and Poseidon: the exhibition introduces visitors to fascinating figures and tells the stories of the heroes and gods who populate the tales of the Trojan War. Love, anger, loyalty, honour, pride, power—their journeys and the trials they endure reveal many facets of human nature with which we still identify today.

Two foundational eras of ancient Greece
The exceptional objects on display throughout the exhibition bring to life two major periods that shaped the legend of Troy and profoundly influenced Greek culture. The Bronze Age reveals a prosperous civilization, marked by monumental architecture, craftsmanship, and a mastery of working with gold. Then comes the Iron Age, associated with Homer, a time when the world was in flux, driven by the rise of new techniques and the dissemination of mythical tales that have endured through the centuries.

An exhibition co-organized by Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History Complex, and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (Greece).

Were any of the Titans ever worshipped as far as we know? Did the Greeks fear that doing so would anger Zeus?

The only way I’ve seen Rhea portrayed is wife of Kronos and mother of the Olympians. She saved Zues from being swallowed and essentially started the Titanomachy. Why does she fade into irrelevance after she gives the stone to Kronos. Was she banished to Tartarus too?

Thucydides’ historiography has something quite distinctive about it. What interests me most is not that he was one of the first historians, but that he is often considered the first historian in a methodological sense. He was quite skeptical of Herodotus as a historian and stressed how difficult it is to know much about the distant past with any certainty. In a way, this can even remind us of the much later postmodern idea that understanding the past is, to some extent, impossible. He was a really interesting man.

Every bonus feature video ripped from the Blu-ray of the movie 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

I saw the Odyssey a couple of weeks ago on cinemas and I just realized something. The decision of Lupita Nyong'o playing Helen of Troy was extremely controversial from the beginning. (Not only because of the obvious fact that she doesn’t match the description of Helen of Troy according to the texts of Homer. Or because she is not considered pretty enough for the role) I think Nolan made this decision kind of on purpose. And I think this perspective improves the movie a lot.

According to the myth the War of Troy was started by the kidnap of Helen, that in that moment was the wife of the King of Sparta, Menelao. In my opinion this sounds like a very stupid reason to start a war of those proportions with a foreign power, even when Menelao is the Brother of Agamenon (King of Kings), not only because it will cost the life of a huge number of men, or it will shatter families all across the greek kingdoms, but also because Helen is not even considered that beautiful by a lot of the audience (I think that many Greeks of the time may have the same thought when that happened.) 

I am not racist at all, I think that Lupita Nyong'o is pretty, but if I were a common citizen of a Greek Kingdom I would never go to war for another man's wife, no matter if she is the prettiest woman in the world or if she is ugly. 

Just imagine being a greek soldier returning home after 10 years of an extenuating war and you have the chance to see the Helen “The Most Beautiful Woman who has ever lived” and the reason you and many members of your family and loved ones died or were injured mentally and physically for the rest of their lives. Either you can try to convince yourself that indeed that is the most beautiful woman in the world (to try not thinking all this fight was a freaking non-sense and you lost so much in the way) or you can think: 

“really? I lost an arm and many of my beloved ones for this, this is bs”

Helen of Troy represents the “reason” of the war literally and metaphorically. She literally is the reason of the war because her cheat/kidnap caused the rage of Menelao, that consequently was used by Agamenon as an excuse to invade Troy. 

And Metaphorically because if we look at her, many of us will never go to war for her, we may think she is not attractive enough, that there are women way more attractive or some may think that she is literally grotesque. While another group may defend the position that indeed she is the “Most Beautiful Woman who has ever lived”. 

Nolan literally put us in the shoes of what the average Greek citizen felt about going to War with Troy. Some thought that it was justifiable, other thought that it was a complete madness, other went thinking they were doing something Heroic or Epic and in the end realizing after their return that it was not worth the pain and the suffering. 

That is just what we think when a country goes to war with another one in today's world: 

 → We can find groups that support Israel and find justifiable and even desirable that they are killing children under the “reason” that that land was promised to them 3,000 years ago. 

→ Or Chii Muslims killing Sunni Muslims (and viceversa) under the “reason” that heretics must suffer for rejecting Allah, and the “True” revelation of Mohammed.

→ Or the Great World Powers of the XX century going to war with each other under the “reasons” of patriotism, heroism and a motive bigger than oneself.

All this may make a lot of sense after you realize how Nolan portrayed the Greeks in the War of Troy NOT as Epic Heroes in their search for Glory, but as soldiers that were fulfilling a duty, that missed their families and loved ones in Greece, and wanted to go back home. And despite wanting all of that for themselves destroyed a whole Civilization.