Hellenistic religion

Late form of ancient Greek religion

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2024 Awarded the McClelland Trophy with his team and recognized as the most courageous player.
2024 Ralph Fiennes is set to play Odysseus in The Return film.
2023 In Round 11, Sicily achieved a career-high 43 disposals in a 10-point win against St Kilda.
February 2023 Appointed as the 38th captain of Hawthorn at age 28, succeeding the retired Ben McEvoy.
2022 Won the Peter Crimmins Medal, a significant individual achievement.
2022
Iphigenia
T.J. Nelson published a scholarly article 'Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion' in TAPA, providing a contemporary academic analysis of Iphigenia's representation in classical literature.
May 16 2022 Announced a 5-year contract extension with Hawthorn, tying him to the club until at least the end of 2027.
2021
Iphigenia
Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding collaborated to create a modern opera titled 'Iphigenia', bringing the mythical character to contemporary musical interpretation.
2020 Represented the Victoria Australian rules football team.
2020 Sustained an ACL injury that caused him to miss the entire 2021 season.
2019 Selected in the extended All-Australian squad, the only Hawthorn player to do so. Re-signed with the club until at least 2022.
2018 Sicily was suspended for one match for kneeing Geelong captain Joel Selwood. He broke bones in his wrist in Round 17 but returned during the finals series.
2018 Joseph Mawle portrayed Odysseus in the TV series Troy: Fall of a City, offering another contemporary interpretation of the mythical hero.
2018 A main character in Pat Barker's novel The Silence of the Girls, much of which is narrated by his slave Briseis.
2017 Selected in the 22under22 team, highlighting his early career potential.
August 22 2017 Sicily signed a three-year contract extension, keeping him at Hawthorn until 2020.
2016 Nominated for the AFL Rising Star award and recognized as the most promising player in the same year.
2016 Considered Sicily's breakout season. He was named round 13 Rising Star nominee after kicking a career-high five goals and recording 13 disposals and 5 marks.
2015 Sicily made his AFL debut, coming on as a substitute in the first quarter, replacing the injured James Frawley and kicking a goal. He played three games for the year.
2014 Sicily was considered Box Hill's best player in the losing grand final, kicking a team-high three goals, and finishing with 15 disposals and five marks.
2013 James Sicily was drafted by the Hawthorn Football Club with the fifty-sixth pick in the AFL draft.
2012 Appears as the Rider of Red in the light novel series Fate/Apocrypha.
2011 Main character in Madeline Miller's debut novel The Song of Achilles, which explores his relationship with Patroclus and won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction.

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