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.
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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.
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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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