festival‚ King Leonidas decides to prepare for war with Xerxes before the Persian king and his troops could advance to Sparta. He knew that he would not get the support of the politicians to get the bigger Greek army to follow him. Therefore he chose 300 Spartans who had sons to carry on their names to be his bodyguards and decides go to war. His vision and strategy was to block the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes could pass. Vastly outnumbered‚ the Greeks held back their enemies
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300 Gender The film industry has created the conventional gender roles of society into their movies; A majority of films have supported some of the male and female stereotypes. In the history of the film industry‚ the role of men is primarilythat of the stereotypical working class man or hero‚ while the roles of women are primarily portrayed as being somewhat inferior to men. In the 1930s through the 1970s‚ men held the leading roles in films while women played smaller roles. Men were typically
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Introduction Additions Many areas of the film have been completely altered‚ For example in Herodotus The histories there is no mention at all of Leonidas’ wife queen Gorgo. In the times of aqncient Greece women were not involved in political debates within the film Queen Gorgo argues her husband’s case to send more Spartan troops to Thermopylae while he is fighting the Persians. This would not have occurred in ancient Greece as women were not considered citizens or equals to men.(Although Spartan
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In this paper I will be comparing and contrasting the events that took place in the movie 300 to the real events that were recorded throughout history by many historians that have studied these events of the one of the strongest Hellenic city-states Sparta. The movie 300 was set in the spring of 480 BC when the Persian King Xerxes was trying to follow in his fathers footsteps who continuing his master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states‚ arrives in Hellas. The previous attempts by the
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300: A Movie Evaluation Many people hear that the movie 300 is a historically inaccurate movie of fantasy and write it off as a bad film. However‚ the story and its underlying message‚ the symbolism‚ and the cinematography makes 300 the greatest movie to ever hit the big screen. The Story and its underlying message of 300 is the first aspect that really catches the viewer. 300 is told by the narrator‚ Dilios‚ who was sent back from battle by King Leonidas to relay the word of what the king and
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Historical Review 300 & 300: Rise Of An Empire By: Liam McCullough Both Movies 300 and 300: Rise of an Empire‚ were over two battles that took place during the Persian war that spanned from 499 to 449 BC. The two Battles were the Battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Salamis both happened in 480 BC. The main source of these facts come from a man named Herodotus who is called‚ and was called the father of history. The movie 300 was based off the Battle of Thermopylae‚ the Spartans sent 300 men to fight
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hostilities were quite extreme‚ due to Xerxes’ military decision to acquire Greece‚ there were few written sources which were not composed by his opposition or heavily influenced by the bitter relationship. Despite accounts‚ by composers such as Herodotus and Aeschylus‚ there has been recent attempt to consider both ancient and modern sources to balance his image. In the endeavor to reevaluate a reign that has much maligned throughout history and to reconsider a personality who has been at the mercy
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QUESTIONS FOR HERODOTUS’ THE HISTORIES I. Who is Herodotus’s intended audience? Why was it written? A. His intended audience was the Greeks. B. It was written to tell the story of the Pelopensisan War C. Written to cover the conquests of Cyrus as he takes over much of the known world by ruling the Persian Empire. D. Herodotus was half Greek and half Persian E. He intended his work to undermine Hellenic ethnocentricity -- to open the Greek mind to to the rich diversity of the surrounding
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Xerxes lived from 520 to 465BC. He was the grandson of Cyrus and son of Darius. Xerxes was put into succession according to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus‚ as Xerxes was the first son of Darius’s wife Atossa. Xerxes father Darius 1 died in 486BC‚ and this is where Xerxes took over for his father and became king. Xerxes continued his father strategy of consolidating and tightening control of the empire‚ particularly in Egypt‚ Babylon and Asiatic Greece. Xerxes felt he needed to invade Greece
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) are usually classified as cultural heritage or legends‚ because they do not support the "disinterested investigation" required of the discipline of history or somewhat not. Events occurring prior to written record are considered prehistory. Herodotus‚ a 5th century B.C. Greek historian is considered to be the "father of history"‚ and‚ along with his contemporary Thucydides‚ helped form the foundations for the modern study of human history. Their influence has helped spawn variant interpretations
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