Really feels like a cheap knock-off of Feasibility Study (from both versions of Outer Limits). I know they added Jurassic Park to make it feel different, but the premise remains the same.
There's very little explanation, very little cause and effect, too many circular sequences and everything is so chopped off in theatre edit. Eventually the pay-off isn't that great.
Feasibility Study any day (esp the Original version)
Was the victory over city states seen as a revenge for Trojan Wars (symbolically)? Did Poets or Writers depict an age of Trojan glory where Greek had been taught a lesson?
Was the victory over city states seen as a revenge for Trojan Wars (symbolically)? Did Poets or Writers depict an age of Trojan glory where Greek had been taught a lesson?
So many Kings/Emperors have proclaimed that they were of divine origin. How did commoners view them: to me it sounds like the state propaganda wanted to give them a modern superhero's appeal, but to what extent was this actually believed?
After all, kings and emperors did die. And over centuries, the human collective would've noticed that no kingdom or empire was certain to go on forver. What did the commoners make of such claims of immortality or of godly powers then? Were there some sceptics?
Or were the claims themselves far more nuanced, reflecting only specific lineage to appeal to a particular base?
I mean beyond obvious geographies? I do know that some Hindu texts mentioned Yavanas (Greeks), but were they also aware of Zeus or Seth? And similarly, were the Greeks or Romans aware of Vishnu or Shiva?
Did Interpretatio Graeca act as a bridge or hindrance in spread of knowledge in this regard?
I assume a lot of the present civil law is influenced by Roman legal beliefs. I want to understand, how were acts such as murders or bodily harm treated under Roman laws? I'd read somewhere that an unnatural death was treated as an injury to society. How did it translate at a social and legal level (if true)?
Maybe one for film historians, but did the cinema of the period (which is generally seen as quite progressive) depict the socio-cultural impact of Fascism/Nazism?