{"id":79,"date":"2014-09-17T20:56:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T20:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/?p=79"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:22:56","slug":"an-expert-contrasts-the-movie-300-to-herodotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2014\/09\/17\/an-expert-contrasts-the-movie-300-to-herodotus\/","title":{"rendered":"An Expert Contrasts the Movie &#8220;300&#8221; to Herodotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Sept. 11, local classicist William Scott Proffitt visited UB to introduce the 2007 action movie <em>300<\/em> to students and faculty in the Bogomolny Room.\u00a0 Proffitt made the screening special by discussing the original sources for our knowledge of the ancient\u00a0Battle of Thermopylae.\u00a0 He compared and contrasted the historical and archeological sources to the different scenes in the movie.\u00a0 Then, the audience enjoyed a free screening of the film with fresh-popped popcorn, courtesy of the UB Students Events Board.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2014\/09\/leonidas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-88\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2014\/09\/leonidas.jpg\" alt=\"Leonidas\" width=\"389\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jacques-Louis David&#8217;s painting of King Leonidas hangs in the Louvre, Paris (click to enlarge).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Sept. 11, local classicist William Scott Proffitt visited UB to introduce the 2007 action movie 300 to students and faculty in the Bogomolny Room.\u00a0 Proffitt made the screening special by discussing the original sources for our knowledge of the ancient\u00a0Battle of Thermopylae.\u00a0 He compared and contrasted the historical and archeological sources to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2014\/09\/17\/an-expert-contrasts-the-movie-300-to-herodotus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Expert Contrasts the Movie &#8220;300&#8221; to Herodotus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}