<page_title> List of historical period drama films and series set in Near Eastern and Western civilization </page_title> <section_title> Films set in Ancient Era (3000–500 BC) </section_title> <table> <cell> The Fury of Achilles <col_header> Title </col_header> </cell> <cell> 1962 <col_header> Release date </col_header> </cell> <cell> Set in western Anatolia in the 9th year of the Trojan War, based on the epic poem Iliad by Homer. King Agamemnon of Mycenae has lost his slave concubine Chryseis, and demands Briseis as a replacement concubine. <col_header> Notes on setting </col_header> </cell> </table>
The Fury of Achilles, a historical drama set in the ninth year of the Trojan War, was based primarily on Homer's Iliad and was released in 1962.