HIST 2020 Lecture 4: Hist2020 Lecture #4 (10.03.2016)
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Historical context (greco-persian wars: battle of ideologies. Analogous to western ideals vs else: represents western identity. Eurocentric view is that we are surrounded by chaos and our society is more pure and worthy of protection: compare to canada/russia hockey tournament. Meant more than one victory, it represented a triumph of few over the many. Makers of the movie as well as the ancient greek texts wish for us to view the persians as barbaric. Persians: monotheistic, conservative, would have thought the greeks were barbaric, taken aback by their liberal clothing choices. Roots to the persian-greek conflict: 11th to 8th century bc, following collapse of mycenaean civilization (dark ages, civilization is collapsing in greece they spread out (southern spain, france, italy, northern. And turkey
