movies about ancient Greece?

Question

any type of movie where you can see how ancient greeks lived. daily lives, love, education, food etc. i would prefer movies that were recently made (1999 and up) but old movies are ok to

Answer 1

You should watch the film based on Sophocles' "Iphigenia", the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra (sp for both may be off). It was filmed in Greece, not on sound stages and uses a Greek cast with the incandescent Irene Papas as Clytemnestra who battles her jerk husband for the life of their daughter. It is beautifully filmed but with such a look of authenticity as they scurry through hallways on rock or dirt covered floors.

Answer 2

The problem with movies about ancient Greece is that what some people might call, however inaccurately, the gay stuff, is left out entirely or twisted out of recognition. The 300 Spartans was quite accurate visually but remorselessly straight. Troy made Patroclus into Achilles' COUSIN, for chrissakes! to explain his devotion - though, I might add, a WWII veteran told me the love of man and man was a comradeship thing, not a gay thing. And what the hell, in that Rambo film set in Afghanistan he seemed to have a boyfriend, didn't he?

Answer 3

There is a great movie called "300 Spartans" Shows a good view of Spartan society as good as any Hollywood movie has.

Answer 4

Odyssey

Answer 5

Troy