The Trojan course; Troy boy: Brad Pitt as Achilles.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: March 18, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Laura Clark

TOWERING figures such as Cleopatra, Alexander the Great and Hannibalwill come to life in the classroom in the first GCSE course in ancient history.

Interest in the subject is said to have soared on the back of big budget moviesfocusing on the civilisations as old as time.

Troy, Hollywood's take on the Iliad, the epic Greek poem about the siege of theancient city, starred Brad Pitt as the legendary warrior Achilles.

Colin Farrell starred as Alexander the Great in Alexander, the story of theking of Macedon who conquered Persia, Egypt, Syria and ...

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