LEONIDAS

I had the great pleasure of looking through dozens of thousands of ancient Greek pottery in the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum for archaeologists. When I started thinking about comparing stills of 300 with what's to be found on two hundred years of Greek vase production, I knew that it would be challenging. There are not a whole bunch of bearded figures, and Athenian vase painters certainly weren't into Leonidas and his Spartans, especially at the time of the Peloponnesian War. Also, almost everything is in profile, because of the two-dimensionality of the art on the surface of a pot, and I found that very limiting. Kids and women were certainly not as popular as warriors, but I sure had fun putting underpants on all the men.

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[Aegialeus]

Great work, brilliantly done. The music is perfectly suited.

How long did it take you to do, and what software did you use if you don't mine my asking? Are all these available pics on the net or did you have to scan them from books?

[Liozzo]

Hi - thank you for your very kind comments. I'm late in reply, because I have been out of the country on a dig - looking for more vases. This took several months - mostly looking through Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum for suitable vase paintings (to make pictorial comparisons), much of which is now online. I use the Sony Vegas movie making program. This was a labor of love - of art in general and of the movie in particular.

[BIBUS2424]

and the second pottery image is not Greek of a pottery image... i didn't even watch past that, it felt so terrible to look at. History and art are pissed at you

[Liozzo]

You give intelligent fanboys a bad name. Why don't you read the description before you waste your time watching a video? The second image (as the many following) is not meant to be a pottery image. Your comments sadly reflect all too well your asinine logic.

[BIBUS2424]

Les Mis deserves better

[Liozzo]

Yes, it does. Stop trying to defend it. It's wonderful music which certainly doesn't need the lame intercession you are attempting to make.

[maikmetalwarrior]

thank you 10. 000 times, i love you my brother :-)

[smellsgood3]

cool vid!

[orthodoxdragon1]

persia was all around from libya-turkey-persian gulf-pakistan,but there was just one litlle pice that you thought you will easly demolish,and that litlle pice was greece a pandoras box for persia

[orthodoxdragon1]

persians were way more numberd and had way more supplies from much biger empire and they were atacking greeks constantly,but then you cee the real art of war when greeks blow ewrey posible empire from greece to end of india,by the way persopolis was captured and burned by alexanders forces so dont claim it on arabians,so basicly you were fucked ten times more by greeks

[webberphan]

I love your art work! So many well matched scenes with the artwork and wonderful fading to the 300 scenes!

BRAVO!

[Colts4ever123]

the empire is alive today, you just do not realize you are living in it? They gave us the light to follow a nomos and a direction.

[14111348]

The history that you speak about is written by Greek historians like Herodot and others.Unfortunatly Persian history was destroyed after attacking Barberian Arabs. But still we have the power of thinking and we use the logic.This story is not logic and only a dream!As other story that says:"Greeks surrandered their Athen to trick Persians" which is imposible and not logic!!!I have to admit,Greece has a rich culture but they have never made an impire like Persians and they just conquered one!!!

[Colts4ever123]

nice but like you said not true on your part.

History cannot be changed face the facts and the music. What they teach you in persia is a different story of what the rest of the world knows as the truth.If they had no need to fight them why did the battle take place? are you saying it was a figment of imagination? Have you been to the hot gates?

Have you ever dealt with a true spartan?

A movie can add some of this and that, but history it did not mislead.

[14111348]

Nice but not true!!!Persians don't have Blacks, They have never been nude(pictures, Persepolis)and Persia is and was the only empire that has never had slavery and the first nation with one God(read history).300 is full of lies and in fact the story itself is a dream CAZ an empire from India to Macedonia with millions of soldires had no need to fight with 300 soldiers of a defeated army!they just could blow them out-the best

[anotherOnefortheOne]

Great work.