The Athenians were fighting a sea battle during this. Classical sources are certainly used, but exactly in all the wrong places, or quite naively. Herodotus’ fanciful numbers are used to populate the Persian army, and Plutarch’s discussion of Greek women, specifically Spartan women, is inserted wrongly in the dialogue between the “misogynist” Persian ambassador and the Spartan king. Diodorus’ statement about Greek valor to preserve their liberty is inserted in the film, but his mention of Persian valor is omitted. Aeschylus becomes a major source when the battle with the “monstrous human herd” of the Persians is narrated in the film.
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Some passages from the Classical authors Aeschylus , Diodorus, Herodotus and Plutarch are spilt over the movie to give it an authentic flavor. Touraj Daryaee, now Baskerville Professor of Iranian History and the Persian World at the University of California, Irvine, criticizes the movie’s use of classical sources, writing: In Herodotus’ time there were various accounts of what transpired, but we know 700 hoplites from Thespiae remained, fighting beside the Spartans, they, too, dying to the last man. When it becomes apparent they are surrounded, this contingent flees. In 300 the fighting is not in the hoplite fashion, and the Spartans do all of it, except for a brief interlude in which Leonidas allows a handful of untrained Greeks to taste the action, and they make a hash of it. All told, some 4,000 Greeks perished there. These Greeks took turns rotating to the front of the phalanx stationed at Thermoplyae where, fighting in disciplined hoplite fashion, they held the narrow pass for two days. According to Herodotus, Leonidas led an army of perhaps 7,000 Greeks. This touches on 300‘s most noteworthy abuse of history: the Persians are turned into monsters, but the non-Spartan Greeks are simply all too human. This was a frequent target of Athenian comedy, wherein the verb “to Spartanize” meant “to bugger.” In 300, Greek pederasty is, naturally, Athenian. This is ironic given that pederasty was an obligatory 1 part of a Spartan’s education. No need – it is strongly implied Xerxes is homosexual which, in the moral universe of 300, qualifies him for special freakhood. Xerxes is eight feet tall, clad chiefly in body piercings and garishly made up, but not disfigured. He suggests that the film’s moral universe would have seemed “as bizarre toancient Greeks as it does to modern historians.”ģ00’s Persians are ahistorical monsters and freaks.
What matters is how and why?Įphraim Lytle, assistant professor of Hellenistic History at the University of Toronto, states that 300 selectively idealizes Spartan society in a “problematic and disturbing” fashion, as well as portraying the “hundred nations of the Persians” as monsters and non-Spartan Greeks as weak. According to our short discussion on previous cocktail talk about movie 300, here are some insights I found after surveying about it.
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