Vanity fair interviews professor on Hollywood portrayals of Greek mythology

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Peter Meineck is a professor of classics in modern world and he breaks down Greek myths in media. The professor talks about many movies such as “clash of titans”, “Hercules” and “Wonder Woman” and their lack of depth and precision, it’s also a very interesting watch

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[doriiansz]

Well hello there, professor

[babycheeses1]

Nooo love yourself 😭

[doriiansz]

It's too late for me. But go! Save yourselves!

[therearewords]

[surprisesidney]

I’m surprised Hollywood hasn’t started tapping into the rising trend of Greek mythology in fiction. Someone just gimme a movie about Cassandra already.

[babycheeses1]

I'd love a TV show about Greek Gods.

[brokecouture]

I feel like we def had a bubbly era there for a second and it fizzled out before we could get real gems.

[yami_no_hoshi]

I know they are making a show out of Madeline Miller’s novel Circe.
Hopefully that will kickstart a trend!

[brokecouture]

Dang I forgot about the era of 300 just cinematography wise alone and the movies that followed because of it lol

[love_galore]

Ironically Snyder's planned sequel for 300 ended up being a gay love story between Alexander the Great and Hephaestion, but WB wasn't interested.

[missyxxmisch]

awww man, that's so lame! -_- stupid studios.

[ahkna]

I've always thought the 'historically inaccurate' stuff about 300 was really funny because it's like when someone calls Xena historically inaccurate. Who looks to neckbeard comic books for historical accuracy? At the very least people must have figured out it wasn't supposed to be historically accurate when a 10 foot tall god appeared.