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Mythology Expert Reviews Greek & Roman Mythology in Movies | Vanity Fair

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Peter Meineck, Professor of Classics in the Modern World at New York University, reviews Greek and Roman mythology scenes from films including ‘300,’ ‘Clash of the Titans,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?,’ ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Hercules.’

00:00 Intro
00:10 ‘300’
05:59 ‘Clash of the Titans’
08:47 ‘Black Panther’
14:45 ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’
17:43 ‘Wonder Woman’
21:54 ‘Hercules’

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  1. Hello There

    February 3, 2022 at 5:38 pm

    I heard the reason Persians were depicted as horrible beings was because it was told by the soldier as propaganda for the spartan army to hype them up before their battle

    • Lena Annis

      February 3, 2022 at 5:45 pm

      I dont know abt the movie,but as a Greek let me say we have respect for the Persian empire. Darious was a great king

  2. RCScorch

    February 3, 2022 at 5:49 pm

    300 is completely historically accurate in every way. Cope and seethe

    • technicalafro

      February 3, 2022 at 6:13 pm

      he also said it has inaccurate, racist depictions of the Persians, so

  3. Uncommentaytor

    February 3, 2022 at 5:50 pm

    Absolutely loved the last point he made about myths and fidelity. Stories are made richer by allowing it to be influenced by the zeitgeist.

  4. StopBeingASnoop

    February 3, 2022 at 5:50 pm

    I’m sorry. What’s this video about? I’m too distracted watching this handsome Daddy on my screen. 😍

  5. RCScorch

    February 3, 2022 at 5:57 pm

    This guy is so annoying lol

  6. James B. Pratt, Jr.

    February 3, 2022 at 6:00 pm

    Love these critiques….

    • James B. Pratt, Jr.

      February 3, 2022 at 6:08 pm

      And, as this goes on…wow…he really digs into colonization and the very title of the video. Brilliant.

  7. SparkJoy

    February 3, 2022 at 6:08 pm

    I would love to hear the professor’s perspective on “Alexander” esp. Alexander’s campaign in India and the connection between Ancient Greece and India, given that many of Alexander’s soldiers stayed on in present-day Pakistan.

  8. Vic Google

    February 3, 2022 at 6:16 pm

    Can anyone(with the appropriate knowledge in the field) confirm that the spartan army were bisexual?

  9. M D

    February 3, 2022 at 6:27 pm

    Peter you are a true scholar. You talk with such confidence and ease. You are a role model historian/scholar/professor. Please invite him again. Vanity fair I like your content more than GQ who has a similar series. Much respect to you. I have never learned so much in your videos or GQs like this one. Really ty Peter for coming

  10. Mario Mario

    February 3, 2022 at 6:27 pm

    4:00 what is this guy talking about? The Persians were enemies and portrayed as such. Has nothing to do with “brown people”

    Ugh when “professors” inject their own ideology into films. Pretty disgusting

  11. HubbyBoy

    February 3, 2022 at 6:34 pm

    I see no Thor here..??

  12. Connor Dickerson

    February 3, 2022 at 6:42 pm

    Nothing more masculine then a manly man man handling a masculine mans manhood.

  13. Pete W

    February 3, 2022 at 6:47 pm

    i love that he calls it “The 300”

  14. Ptolémée Sélénion

    February 3, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    @0:01 to @4:20 I understand his opinion given that I used to have the same outrage when I have seen this movie for the first time as a black teenager in 2012. But the whole point about 300 (both the graphic novel and the film adaptation) is to make a satire about propaganda as a whole.

    Missing the point about movies like 300 come to me as misunderstanding wholly _Attack on Titan_ . I mean, this fiction is a satire about so many controversial themes too.

  15. Sam Baillie

    February 3, 2022 at 6:58 pm

    Probably the best episode I’ve watched. Absolutely loved his assessment on the “disabled” in the ancient world, and the representation of those in film as distrusteful.

  16. apatheist89

    February 3, 2022 at 7:06 pm

    I think they should have extended this to video games so he could talk a bit about Hades, the video game.

  17. ClickyCrust

    February 3, 2022 at 7:08 pm

    300 is a Spartan propaganda narrated by a Spartan who were trying to rally the Spartan army, it’s based on a comic book and there’s literally a mutilated giant in there at some point. It cannot diffrentiate itself as a fantasy film more lol

  18. Ijan Zulis

    February 3, 2022 at 7:18 pm

    Asi con toy y sus mañas no se la *FUNNYmuvie.Online*
    hay nomas pa ra reirse un rato y no estar triste y estresado por la vida dura que

  19. A C

    February 3, 2022 at 7:30 pm

    As an English major, it’s so nice to watch one of these videos relate to my field of study 😊

  20. Agatha O'Hoshley

    February 3, 2022 at 7:39 pm

    I could listen to him for hours!

  21. Freckled One

    February 3, 2022 at 7:51 pm

    What is next on the syllabus? This was fantastic. You are a wonderful speaker, Sir!

  22. Jaime G. Aguirre

    February 3, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    More videos with Peter!

  23. Pritam

    February 3, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    More political then factual😐

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