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Mythology Expert Reviews Greek & Roman Mythology in Movies & TV (Part 2) | Vanity Fair

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Peter Meineck, Professor of Classics in the Modern World at New York University, is back to review more Greek and Roman mythology scenes from films and television including ‘Aquaman,’ ‘Immortals,’ ‘Jason and the Argonauts,’ ‘Xena: Warrior Princess,’ ‘Troy’ and ‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.’

00:00 Intro
00:09 ‘Aquaman’
02:07 ‘Immortals’
04:46 ‘Jason and the Argonauts’
06:45 ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’
08:03 ‘Troy’
09:13 ‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters’

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29 Comments

  1. Ryanmanification

    March 23, 2022 at 4:41 pm

    So Xena’s warcry has a historical background?

  2. Ryanmanification

    March 23, 2022 at 4:43 pm

    Is there a part 3? This needs a part 3

  3. SparkJoy

    March 23, 2022 at 4:45 pm

    Oh man! I would love to see Peter do a video discussion on just Ray Harryhausen films!

  4. Saf Nuranisa

    March 23, 2022 at 4:57 pm

    OUR FAVOURITE LECTURER IS BACK!!!

  5. visualistener

    March 23, 2022 at 5:09 pm

    If he hasn’t already, I think it would be fantastic if he reviewed Greek/Roman/Norse mythology in video games like God of War and Hades!

  6. Chaitanya Raj

    March 23, 2022 at 5:11 pm

    I am so glad there is a part 2 now. Incredibly informative.

  7. 俊凯❤️‍🔥

    March 23, 2022 at 5:23 pm

    HES BACK HES BACK IM SO EXCITED

  8. Leonel Doleschal

    March 23, 2022 at 5:38 pm

    This guys are really giving us the winsdom and we should be thank for that!!!

  9. RED entertainment

    March 23, 2022 at 5:39 pm

    I’m pretty sure that by the time the “real” Iliad takes place chariots we’re just used as taxis. Also chariots are not shock calvary they wouldn’t charge into formations . Especially in Mesopotamia and Africa chariots we’re used as mobile shooting platforms.

  10. Ghina Naeem

    March 23, 2022 at 5:41 pm

    He knows Percy Jackson
    My day is made

  11. the2ndbestNameever

    March 23, 2022 at 5:47 pm

    Excellence, keep this series going

  12. TheAbstruseOne

    March 23, 2022 at 5:51 pm

    “Myths are the most relevant things because facts can be debated, interpreted, and argued over. But if you tell a story…you’re trying to communicate something important to that person.” I’m just going to assume that Professor Meineck has never been on the internet a day in his life if he thinks people don’t argue over the meaning behind stories.

    • Kasper Salonen

      March 23, 2022 at 6:43 pm

      He’s also missing the point that he himself is telling the common story that “Atlantis [or something like it] wasn’t real” — despite probably not giving ancient sources credence or searching every cubic km of the Atlantic Ocean to prove said story. The professor’s knowledge and analysis are top notch, but he also clearly feels quite alright about claiming something about prehistory that cannot at present be disproven. Not surprising, but it’s still a slightly depressing attitude. In my mind, a good scientist is always agnostic about the seemingly impossible or improbable.

    • TheAbstruseOne

      March 23, 2022 at 7:14 pm

      @Kasper Salonen The “ancient source” was a second-hand account of a story Socrates claims he heard at a dinner party as written by Plato which was an allegory for the ethics of a society and culture that wasn’t meant to be taken literally in the first place. While we have not searched every single cubic kilometer of the Atlantic Ocean, we have mapped enough of the ocean to know there was not a sunken city-state the size of Texas hiding down there. There is not and never was an Atlantis.

      Also, aliens did not build anything on Earth, orichalcum was either misidentified bronze or platinum, and the Bermuda Triangle only has a bunch of plane crashes and shipwrecks because it’s a high traffic area so of course it has more accidents than other places.

    • Kasper Salonen

      March 23, 2022 at 7:26 pm

      @TheAbstruseOne Thanks for the reply. I recognize that you have also already made up your mind, and I respect that 🙂 I guess I personally feel that I don’t know enough about prehistoric civilizations or modern investigative methods to relinquish my doubt, so I feel obliged to give all takes a chance, including but not limited to the official one. This thought process of mine isn’t limited to seemingly paranormal or invented topics. If I believe in anything related to this reasoning as such, it’s that we have very likely forgotten a great deal about our past as a species.

    • TheAbstruseOne

      March 23, 2022 at 7:42 pm

      @Kasper Salonen So you say *I* have already made up my mind while at the same time admitting that you “don’t know enough” yet refute the conclusion of every single non-tinfoil-hat-wearing expert in the field?

  13. Zero

    March 23, 2022 at 6:02 pm

    God I love him.

  14. Roshan Singh

    March 23, 2022 at 6:26 pm

    You missed something important . In many of Sophocles’ writings , he has repeatedly stressed that Hector did not actually look like Eric Bana

  15. Daisy Kingham

    March 23, 2022 at 6:52 pm

    This guy is my favourite of all your guests. I could listen to him for hours!

  16. Aidan Rogers

    March 23, 2022 at 6:58 pm

    Yeah, I don’t care what he says, I still think Troy is a great film and that first battle is still epic.

  17. Marlene G.

    March 23, 2022 at 7:14 pm

    Brilliant. I hope they can do more movies with him.

  18. SinLord

    March 23, 2022 at 7:15 pm

    Xena the Warrior Princess was indeed fantastic

  19. Abhinav Bhattarai

    March 23, 2022 at 7:18 pm

    This man found something actually positive about the PJO movies, ya love to see it.

  20. Matdy James

    March 23, 2022 at 7:19 pm

    I LOVE this guy. Please bring him back.

  21. Brian Tan

    March 23, 2022 at 7:20 pm

    Wow I just watched the previous episode yesterday and coincidentally, the new episode comes out today. Joy!

  22. Scott the Pisces

    March 23, 2022 at 7:23 pm

    2:00 “You tell a great story, and people will actually believe it” …and that my friends, is how religion came to be.

  23. Henry Blyth

    March 23, 2022 at 7:29 pm

    More Peter pls!

  24. Nat l

    March 23, 2022 at 7:40 pm

    I love this man and I just want to listen him tell story every day

  25. Freckled One

    March 23, 2022 at 7:47 pm

    Not absent for this lecture.

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