Jeff continues his mini-series on the movie “300.” This time the topic is the poorly concealed racism of the film.
139 This is Sparta? Part 3
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Jeff continues his mini-series on the movie “300.” This time the topic is the poorly concealed racism of the film.
Jeff continues to discuss misconceptions that watching the 2006 film “300” might create. This week he gives a more historically accurate description of the Battle of Thermopylae, and how the military skills of Spartans, Persians, and non-Spartan Greeks differed from the way the movie depicts.
Jeff begins a new miniseries on the topic of the 2006 film, “300,” which had a strong impact on lots of young martial artists. In part one he discusses how the film over-idealizes the Spartans, and over-demonizes the Persians.