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Movies about Modern Greece

By moviejourneys On July 25, 2015 · Add Comment · In Greek World, Modern Greece
Greek history in the 20th Century is a catalog of woes. World wars, border wars, civil war, population dislocations, political disarray, and financial crisis have all left their scars. It may be a stereotypical oversimplification to say that when things go wrong, the Greeks dance, but it is also a clear expression of the spirit [...]
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Films from Theo Angelopoulos

By moviejourneys On July 25, 2015 · Add Comment · In Greek World, Modern Greece
The Greek filmmaker, Theo (say Tay-oh) Angelopoulos, died in January 2012 at the age of 76. Shooting a film in the area of Piraeus, south of Athens, he was hit by a motorcycle while crossing a road. It had been his life’s work to chronicle the modern history of Greece in his long and reflective [...]
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Movies about Alexander the Great

By moviejourneys On July 24, 2015 · Add Comment · In Alexander, Greek World
Classic Greek history ends with Alexander. He carried the Greek spirit far beyond the borders of Greece but made his own country more of an abstraction than a powerful nation. Alexander is the pivotal figure in the separation of the West from its Asian origins, but soon enough the Romans would absorb Greece into their [...]
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Movies about the Trojan War

By moviejourneys On July 2, 2015 · Add Comment · In Greek World, Peloponnese: Mycenae/Troy
Helen of Troy  (1956) Helen of Troy  (2003) Troy  (2004) Ulysses  (1955) The Odyssey  (1997)   Most of what we know of the Trojan War comes from the poetry of Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey. In these works, myth and history converge. For centuries, these accounts were thought to be merely myths. But in [...]
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Greek Dramas on Film

By moviejourneys On July 2, 2015 · Add Comment · In Greek World, Peloponnese: Mycenae/Troy
Greek Dramas on Film Mourning Becomes Electra  (1947) Antigone  (1962) Oedipus Rex  (1967) – Pasolini Medea  (1970) – Pasolini The Trojan Women  (1972) Iphigenia  (1977) Bacchantes  (1988) Mighty Aphrodite  (1995)   Oresteia There are a number of Greek dramas that have been committed to film, almost all of them box office non-performers. It can be [...]
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Movies from Greek Myths

By moviejourneys On June 20, 2015 · Add Comment · In Greek World, Mythical Greece
Greek myths operate on evolutionary themes. First came the primordial gods who emerged out of the chaos of creation. Their offspring were a rebellious lot called the Titans, who fought the old order in a war called the Titanomachy. The next generation, equally contrary, were the Olympian gods, superhuman but all too fallible in the [...]
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Movies about Athens and the Persian Wars

By moviejourneys On June 15, 2015 · Add Comment · In Athens, Greek World
Two military threats loomed over the brief flourishing of Athens in the time before Pericles. One was the expansionist ambitions of Persia, intent on subjugating Greece to the Asian empire. The other was the fighting among the Greek city states, contributing to a perpetual state of vulnerability. The first of the Persian Wars came with [...]
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