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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Patrick Taulère, John Jopson |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 30 September, 2002 |
| MANUFACTURER: | A & E Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Documentary |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 733961713046 |
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Customer Reviews of Troy - Unearthing the Legend (History Channel)
The Spartan series was better than the Troy series in here If I could give two ratings, I would give disc 1 (the rise and fall of Sparta) a 5 and disc 2 a 2. I compromised by giving it a three. The Amazon.com review is actually quite accurate, unfortunately.
The first disc is a history channel series on the rise and fall of Sparta. They go into the cultural aspects of the region and how they evolved into a warrior culture and the mythos of Sparta. A lot of time is spent in describing how conditioned the young people were from the homoioi down to the helots.
From there, the series goes into the war with Persia and into detail about the battle of Thermopolye. After spending a sufficient time describing the battles, the series shifts into the Peloponnisian wars and all the intrigue with it and how it sowed the seeds of Sparta's demise.
Some time is spent on Athens and the democracies/oligarchies of the region but it is kept in context of Sparta instead of being diverted.
The second disc contains three A&E shows on Troy. They all three say basically the same thing and sometimes even a bit contradictory between themselves. What that disc will leave you with is some knowledge about the pre-history of troy, Schlieman who rediscovered it in the late 1800s, and the looting done in Germany by the Russians after World War II. Schlieman's items are currently located in Russia. This disc let me unsatisfied.