Problem of Spartan Leadership, track 2
LISTENING FOR LEADERSHIP
The Ideal Image of Spartan Leadership
- Consider the ways in which images have represented Leonidas, the 300 and the Battle at Thermopylae. How do images affect our read of history?
- Take a look at the following images, how do these images portray Leonidas? How do these images compare to the representations in film and, are these images effective?
- Consider the images of leaders today - how are they depicted and why?
Images 1 and 2: Statue at Sparta (erected 1968) with the words μολὼν λαβέ or, "Come and get 'em"
Image 3: Leonidas statue at Thermopylae, erected in 1955.
Image 4: Jacques-Louis David 's, Leonidas at Thermopylae (1814).
