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In Reply to: RE: '300 - Rise of an Empire': How much must I endure . . . posted by Billy Wonka on March 08, 2014 at 08:44:32
good question re: how much must I....
One of the aspects I liked about the film "300" was that it loosely adapted historical events into a highly stylized and somewhat entertaining retelling. I thought it gave life to what history tells us was the Spartan lifestyle. Even though the scene where Lionidas consulted the temple priests for a fortelling of events to come, we saw how those priests had been bribed with Persian coin to steer him wrong. That is something we, in todays world, can identify with.
So given this precedent, I'd assume that this sequel to "300" must depict the battle at Thermopylae.....in exaggerated fantastical style.
-Steve
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Thermopylae was the subject of the first film. This one is the attack on the Athenians, per se. It's complicated.
Maybe it (300 Spartans) was part of Thermopylae. However, Thermopylae, as I understand it was a naval battle. At least it was the naval battle that decided the outcome of the 2nd Persian invasion.
Then, leave it to Alexander (if you can call him a Greek) a century or so later to completely conquer Persia. But that's another story. And I wonder what a Zack Snyder version of Alexander might look like. Certainly, it would be more watchable than that piece of crap Oliver Stone directed.
-Steve
At Salamis the Athenian fleet defeated the Persian fleet. Xerxes lost heart and returned to PersIa but left a very large army in Greece under Mardonius. Mardonius and his army were subsequently destroyed by a confederated Greek army at Platea, a battle in which the Spartans did most of the heavy lifting.
Everybody used to know this stuff, high school history 50 years ago.
that's it. We heard it in HS history, then promptly forgot it after the test. And that was back in the 60's.
I knew there was a huge naval battle, just forgot the details that go with.
:-)
-Steve
This is the naval battle and the name is prominent. The first '300' was about Thermopylae.
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