Trilogy means a literary work, or musical, or scientific divided into three parts, and comes from the Greek. This term has been widely used in cinema, with great box office success.
Among the Trilogy of literary works we still find the Space Trilogy, Heritage Trilogy, O Tempo eo Vento, The Paths of Freedom, The Chronicles of Arthur, among others.
The Trilogy can still be a group of three greek tragedies, consisting of dramatic poems, which were presented in the solemn games of Ancient Greece. Only Aeschylus's trilogy, known as "the Oresteia", composed by agamemnon, the Coephoras and the Eumenides.
Trilogy is also a set of three works that are linked together by themes common to all of them, and it can also be a set of three things that link together to form a trio, a trinity.
famous trilogies
Some trilogies that were successful in cinema:
matrix, in the late 90's with an innovative technique, with the films: Matrix, Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions;
- The Bourne Trilogy;
- The Back to the Future Trilogy;
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy;
- Indiana Jones;
- Godfather.
In the field of literature, some of the most famous trilogies today are: Hunger Games (authored by Suzanne Collins), Fifty Shades of grey (by the writer E.L. James), Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), etc.