HIST 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Total War, Empathic Concern, Ellen Macarthur
15 Mar 2019
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Hist 263 module 1: the heroic warrior and two battles of thermopylae. Describe the differences between primary and secondary sources. Identify the differences between how we imagine war and how was actually fought. Identify the differences between how we imagine warriors and the roles that military leadership actually fulfilled. Violence, combat, fighting for a cause, two (or more) sides in conflict. 300 exemplifies how hollywood understands warfare, in any century. In hollywood (and popular imagination), war should be fought by small groups of well-muscle, charismatic, good men who mostly use hand to hand combat to battle evil enemies on land. A small group of masculine warriors, fighting for democracy and freedom, use close-combat weaponry to battle and overwhelmingly evil empire. Carrying only their armour and weapons, they are destroyed by treachery of an enemy, not the valour of their spirit or strength of arms.
