Thermopylae Film!

[Ghostmojo]

I was going to comment on the blog...but....I know who the blogstress is basically (though not close, through other associates etc) and as such it would be massively unprofessional to do so. So I shan't comment

Well I don't, and so I will (here) - I thought her ramblings were rather pseudo-intellectual and juvenile. If she has serious knowledge of the classics it doesn't show! There is no proper understanding of the relevance of the absence of detailed history in that film; she fails to acknowledge the Leonidas age issue; she tacitly accepts the Ellas love story bit!; she makes comparisons with '300' which are pointless (especially since the latter film was still some 40 odd years in the future); doesn't mention anything about other Greeks at Thermopylai apart from Athenians; and then wanders off into discussing later conflicts which engulfed the area (so what?) without realising the point about the Greek victory in the Persian Wars was it allowed classical Greek culture to flourish - and thereby influence the later wider world, which it wouldn't necessarily have done under the Persian yoke. Full marks to her for bothering of course.

Judging by her photo she looks young and perhaps a bit naive, so perhaps we shouldn't expect much - ditto the 'sword and sandals' mini-epic of 1962!

I accept that it is a Pop Classics observation, but am surprised (and somewhat dismayed) by her Californish vocabulary given she appears to be a Brit! Yay!!! :twisted: