Battle of Thermopylae vs 300 In order to make the Battle of Thermopylae more appealing to the modern day viewers, Frank Miller altered a few aspects in his film “300”. It is a fictional film that was created strictly with special effects. The Battle pf Thermopylae was a fierce battle between an alliance of Greek-city states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta and the Persian Empire of Xerxes, which lasted over a course of three days during the second invasion of Greece by the Persians in 480 B.C. In the movie “300” Hollywood described the soldiers (weapons, attire, etc.) to relate to the modern day Special Forces.
After Philip is assassinated, Alexander becomes king of Macedonia. Ptolemy briefly mentions Alexander's punitive campaign in which he razes Thebes and burns Persepolis, then gives an overview of Alexander's west-Persian campaign, including his declaration as the son of Zeus by the Oracle of Amun at Siwa Oasis, his great battle against the Persian Emperor Darius III in the Battle of Gaugamela and his eight-year campaign across Asia. Also shown are Alexander's private relationships with his childhood friend Hephaestion and later his wife Roxana. Hephaestion compares Alexander to Achilles, to which Alexander replies that, if he is Achilles, Hephaestion must be his Patroclus (Achilles' best friend and his lover). When Hephaestion mentions that
The Greek army decisively defeated the more numerous Persians, marking a turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars. The Battle of Marathon in 490 BC was the result of Persian revenge, after the Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria involved themselves in the Ionian Revolt from 499-493 BC. According to modern historian, Peter Green, the Persians sought to attack Athens with a fighting force of approximately 25, 000 men, of both foot soldiers and cavalry. The Athenians had to bring together their whole hoplite force to defeat the Persians. The Persian force was nearly double that of the Greeks, however due to Miltiades’ reliable expertise on Persian warfare, he was aware that the most elite soldiers would fight in the centre with the weaker ones at the wings.
The recent popular movie, starring Brad Pitt as the main protagonist and the tragic hero of the film, Troy, is a screen adaptation of an epic poem The Iliad attributed to Homer. Although covering the last of the many days in the final year of the nine year siege between the Greeks and the Trojans, it tells of the battles and trials during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. It is interesting to note that during the last scenes of this movie, Aeneas, also the central character of the poem The Aeneid, is shown fleeing the burning city of Troy with his father and son, and fellow Trojan warriors through a tunnel. This very scene literally and metaphorically gives way to the Roman version of what would be retold by the Roman poet, Virgil in his account of Homer’s story, The Iliad, in the first century BC. In Virgil’s The Aeneid, after sailing for Italy, where Aeneas’s preordained destiny to found a city of Rome lay, a terrifying storm throws them off their course to a land named, Carthage, where Dido, the queen of the land welcomes them.
In 58 BCE, Caesar launched an eight-year campaign into modern day France, Germany, and southern England. Caesar led his forces to several victories hundreds of miles away from his base of operations. In 57 BCE, Caesar led his army against a numerically superior force in modern day France near the Sambre River. Caesar demonstrates the commander’s role in the operations process during the Battle of the Sambre River. Julius Caesar used the essential commander’s activities of understanding, describing, directing, and leading in order to attain victory at the Battle of the Sambre.
In this paper, three movie speeches will be thoroughly analyzed using Aristotle’s criteria of logos, pathos, and ethos. The first speech being analyzed comes from the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Near the end of the movie, Aragorn (played by actor Viggo Mortensen) addresses the army prepared to fight against the evil enemy. Aragorn’s goal during this speech is to give his men confidence and courage to stand up and fight against the enemy, in hopes of distracting the dark lord from noticing that the two hobbits are getting close to destroying the one ring ring that keeps the enemy alive. Although Aragorn knows they are outnumbered, Aragorn is determined to motivate the men of the west to fight for the greater good; the existence of man.
A campaign to rid Egypt of the Hyksos was begun by Sequenre Tao II. He led his troops in the first of many bloody clashes, his mummy, now on display in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, bears the marks of wounds inflicted by a dagger, an axe, a spear and even a mace. The axe marks on his forehead match Hyksos weapons found at Tell el-Dab’a. When he died during battle, his son Kamose continued the war. But, he also was unsuccessful in defeating the foreign rulers and he too died in battle.
What would be a better way of demonstrating their superiority than to capture the god of war himself? As their first act of defiance the pair set out to capture the unsuspecting Ares. They traveled to Thrace where they found the god at home in his palace, promptly seized him and held him prisoner in a bronze jar which they hid at the home of their grandmother Eriboea. With Ares neatly out of their way, the two man army continued with their attempt to seige Mount Olympus. In order to build a bridge that would reach to the divine palace of the gods, Mount Pelion was first placed atop of Mount Ossa.
The Buchis bull is the Egyptian god of war which was originally named Montu. She accompanied the new Buchis bull to it’s new temple near the city of Thebes in the Upper Egypt. That’s when her brother finally mastered his plan and had Cleopatra taken of the throne. As Cleopatra was ready to strike at her brother she heard a word going around that the Roman Emperor was in the Palace of Egypt. Which made her think that she can’t barge in with an army or else she might send the wrong message to Caesar.
It all started when King Darius decided to conquer the tiny Greek city states of mainland Greece. King Darius sent messengers to ask for presents of Greek earth and water, which would be a sign that the Greeks would accept rule by the Persians. Instead, the Greeks threw the messengers in wells and pits, and told them that was their earth and water. King Darius was furious and sent soldiers and cavalry by ship to Greece, and they assembled themselves on the plain of Marathon. Miltiades, a great general for Greece, convinced other Greek commanders that the Greeks should fight the Persians at Marathon.