Alvin Zhao- Team Leader
Anthony Mancuso- Delegate, recorder
Shu Lin Tan- Recorder
Julie Theodore -Speaker
Chanté Morren-recorder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT4t1RZauk0
Part 1:
Notes from Video:
- Babies were discarded if they were flawed in a way that they wouldn’t become good soldiers.
- Boys were taught to fight as soon as they could walk
- At age 7, boys were separated from their mothers and put into a world of violence
- Agoge- a system that forces the boys to fight. A system that starves them, forcing to steal or kill
- They weren’t allowed to show pain or mercy even when being punished: hit by a rod or lash
- Constantly tested and tossed into the wild
- His time in the wild is their way to see if he can become a Spartan.
1.Similarity:
- The Spartans didn’t want weak men.
- Greatest glory they can achieve is dying on the battlefield fighting for Sparta.
- The boys were starved so they had to learn how to steal or kill for food
- Being punished for stealing food
Difference:
- Spartans were portrayed a lot more violently
- Made it seem like it was every man for themselves
- The tests like being thrown into the wild and being separated from their mother at the age of 7 to be put into a world of violence
- Boys were left to die if they were born oddly : small, puny sickly or oddly shaped
I think the differences has been made so the Spartans seem more like barbarians that only know how to fight. Also to show that the Spartans were a race filled with perfect warriors.
2.I think people created this video or movie because they wanted people to know how the Spartans were taught from a young age. The video shows a very a barbaric side of the Spartans to the audience.
3.The target audience are older or more mature people: adults and maybe teenagers. The movie is too violent for young children to watch and children wouldn’t know how Spartans were like. Even though adults and teenagers are mature enough to watch the movie, they most likely don’t know much about it because they also believe that Spartans were only barabric people. However that wasn’t the case, Spartans were people with a lot of respect and had their own law system and Constitution.
4.Value-laden words-
- Greatest glory to die in service of Sparta
- Finest warriors the world has ever known
- World of violence
- Perfect form
- Discarded
- Never to retreat, never to surrender
- I think the value- laden words suggests that the creator of the video is for violence. I feel that the target audience is also the same way because they use such violence as a source of entertainment.
- Visuals were very violent. They showed how the boy was taught as he grew older and what it took to be a Spartan. They were intended to appeal to a mature audience people interested in the violence as well as the education of the Spartans.
7.I think the creator wants the target audience to feel a sense of disgust, terror, surprised and at the same time to be in awe of what they see.
Micro Clip- 1:30-1:58
- Agoge is a system that forces the boys to fight, steal and kill
- Spartan a warrior society of 300 years to create the finest warriors the world has evver known.
- They can’t show any kind of pain or mercy
- The boys were punished with a rod or a lash as punishment for being caught stealing
- The boys doesn’t show any sort of remorse when attacking others especially other children
Part 2
list of titles, authors, dates of publication and call numbers.
- Alexander the Great Power as Destiny by Peter Bamm, 1968, DF234.E423
- Alexander the Great by Ulrich Wilcken, 1932 DF 234.W71
- Alexander’s Path by Freya Stark 1958 DF234.37.S8 1958b
- The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian, 2003, DF234.A773
- Alexander’s Empire Formulation to Decay, Waldemar Heckel Lawerence Pat Wheatley, 2007,DF234.A496 2007
- Alexander The Great by Robin Lane Fox , 1974, DF234.F69X 1974
- Conquest and Empire: The reign of Alexander the Great by A.B. Bosworth,1988,.DF 234.B66 1988,
- Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy by John Maxwell O’Brien,1992, DF 234. 027 1992,
- The Empire of Alexander The Great by Professor John Pentland Mahaffy, 1995, DF 234 . M21x 1995
- Alexander the Great Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman F. Cantor, 2005, DF 234.C26 2005
- Collected Papers on Alexander the Great by Ernst Badian, 2012, DF 234.B284x 2012
- Alexander The Great By Baynham, 1998, DF234.B356
- Alexander The Great By Paul Cartledge, 2004, DF234.C285
- Alexander The Great: A New History By Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, DF234.A4857
- Alexander’s Heirs By Anson, 2014, DF234.A673
The 5 newest books and 10 pages
- Alexander’s Heirs By Anson, 2014, DF 234.A673 (pages 11-21)
- Alexander’s Empire Formulation to Decay, Waldemar Heckel Lawerence Pat Wheatley, 2007,DF234.A496 2007 (Pages 13-23)
- Alexander the Great Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman F. Cantor, 2005, DF 234.C26 2005 (page 35-45)
- Alexander The Great: A New History By Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, DF234.A4857 ( pages 7-17)
- Collected Papers on Alexander the Great by Ernst Badian, 2012, DF 234.B284x 2012 (page 106-116)
Bibliography from Books
- 1991. Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C,: A Historical Biography Berkeley from Alexander’s Empire Formulation to Decay
- Green, Peter. Alexander of Macedon: 356-323 B.C, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974 from Alexander the Great Journey to the End of the Earth
- 1958 “Alexander The Great and Unity Of Mankind “ Historia 7 :425-44 from Alexander The Great: A New History
All of which is available online.
Alexander of Macedon is available at Brooklyn College as a hard copy and online.