# Movies about ancient Greece? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-ancient-greece/831514 "2019-03-25T17:31:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JakeRS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@JakeRS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JakeRS)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-ancient-greece/831514/1 "2019-03-25T17:31:14Z")
Other than 300, what other movies exist (that are not drama) about ancient Greece? Ideally about battles if there is such. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-ancient-greece/831514/2 "2019-03-25T17:48:51Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9qGPgr6Nuck/hqdefault.jpg "Airplane-Joey have you ever???") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qGPgr6Nuck) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-ancient-greece/831514/3 "2019-03-25T17:54:11Z")
What do you mean by ‘not drama’? Does Jason and the Argonauts count? Clash of the Titans? Troy? Alexander, Alexander the Great, and Sikander are all about Alexander the Great. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-ancient-greece/831514/4 "2019-03-25T18:15:26Z")
There were a whole bunch of films in the 50s showing the adventures of Hercules. [Steve Reeves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reeves) was associated with the part, but only played it a couple of times. Reeves also played other Greek heroes in “[sword and sandals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword-and-sandal)” epics. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-ancient-greece/831514/5 "2019-03-25T18:34:08Z")
There are plenty of movies based on Greek Mythology (which I just listed in some other recent thread), but Greek history? I’ve seen some educational films. Frank Miller was inspred to do his graphic novel **300** (upon which the movie was based) on the 1962 film **The 300 Spartans** , which covered the same events somewhat more realistically. (And, of course, there’s the sequel to _300_, **300: Rise of an Empire** Sergio Leone, years before his spaghetti westerns, did **The Colossus of Rhodes** , which is wonderfully ludicrous, and gives us a harbor-bestriding Colossus. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-ancient-greece/831514/6 "2019-03-25T18:34:21Z")
And Disney’s _Hercules_ (eventually to get a live-action remake like every other Disney animation.) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-ancient-greece/831514/7 "2019-03-25T18:45:42Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > What do you mean by ‘not drama’? I would imagine the OP means not classical dramas, like Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-ancient-greece/831514/8 "2019-03-25T19:06:07Z")
Wikipedia, as always, has a page on this: > **[Category:Films set in ancient Greece](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in_ancient_Greece)** > > Films set in ancient Greece (12th century BCE-6th century CE). > This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. > The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. The thing is, most of these are mythical (or science fiction), or are based on Greek Dramas. That leaves you the two movies about Alexander the Great, **Socrates** , **The Giant of Maranthon** , **Night in Paradise** , and **Slave Women of Corinth**. Giant of Marathon and Colossus of Rhodes will give the OP the battle scenes he wants in a non-mythological movie.