The influences that that both have in contemporary culture is the military have learned a lot since the Trojan War. The military is not naïve like the soldiers were during the Trojan War. Soldiers are alert on anything that may be mysterious, they work carefully, and if they see something suspicious they know what to do. Soldiers know how to prepare for current war or a possible war that may happen. For example, Students at West Point, which is an elite US military academy where the majority of military students minor in "terrorism studies", shows that The Iliad is part of their literature course. In 2007 literature professor Elizabeth Samet, remembers when poet Robert Fagles recited in Greek the first lines of the Iliad. The 1,000 military