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A period of history · War · about Military
Shelfmark Liber XI
Classical World
3 titles · in the order the archive depicts them. A series counts once, regardless of however many of its episodes carry the tag.
The events and themes the archive follows through the Greco-Persian Wars, in the order they happened, each with the titles that depict it. Press a name to read about it in the threads below.
A decisive naval engagement in the straits of Attica where a smaller Greek force comprised of allied city-states under the leadership of the Athenian statesman, Themisocles,…
300: Rise of an EmpireA famed holding action and last stand at the pass of Thermopylae, where a small allied force of a few thousand Greeks, and famously 300 Spartans under King Leonidas of Sparta…
300300: Rise of an EmpireEvery title set during the Greco-Persian Wars, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.
FilmsSerieseach bar is the titles released that decade
The historical people the archive’s titles put on screen in this period, grouped by what they are known for. The number is how many titles set here they appear in.
A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pick a tab to read one; they are in the order they are filed on the timeline. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.
Event
A decisive naval engagement in the straits of Attica where a smaller Greek force comprised of allied city-states under the leadership of the Athenian statesman, Themisocles, were able to defeat the larger Achaemenid Persian invasion force of Xerxes I, accordingly helping to turn the tide of the Greco-Persian Wars toward the Greeks' favor.
filed under 480 BCE
Event
A famed holding action and last stand at the pass of Thermopylae, where a small allied force of a few thousand Greeks, and famously 300 Spartans under King Leonidas of Sparta delayed the Persian advance of King Xerxes I during the Greco-Persian Wars.
2 titles set here · filed under 480 BCE
Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.
No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.
100%3 of the 3 titles the archive sets between 499 BCE and 449 BCE carry the Greco-Persian Wars tag.
This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.
7 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 5 of them with nothing set there yet. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.
Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.
Gathered from the titles set during this period that the archive has tagged with a myth, whether they repeat it or reject it.
The record: Armies from antiquity until past the Napoleonic period fought in formation because individual soldiers are vulnerable. Battles were usually contests between blocks of men holding together, and the side whose formation broke first usually lost. Further, maintaining clear formations was essential to maintaining battlefield operations and communication, both for commanders to be able to give orders to their subordinate officers as well as for individual soldiers to know where to rally and position themselves.
Repeated by 1 title: 300
Methods and Tactics
Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.
| Relation | Period | Runs | Shared years | Shared threads | Titles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before | Iron Age | 1200 BCE–500 BCE | 1 year earlier | none shared | 3 titles in the archive |
| Concurrent | Spring and Autumn Period | 770 BCE–481 BCE | 499 BCE–481 BCE | none shared | 2 titles in the archive |
| Concurrent | Warring States Period | 475 BCE–221 BCE | 475 BCE–449 BCE | none shared | 2 titles in the archive |
| After | Wars of Alexander | 336 BCE–323 BCE | 113 years later | none shared | 1 title in the archive |
