From killianra@yahoo.com Fri Dec 1 08:46:58 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA304104 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:46:57 -0800 Received: from web9504.mail.yahoo.com (web9504.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.129.134]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with SMTP id IAA22668 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:46:57 -0800 Message-ID: <20001201164653.82430.qmail@web9504.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [152.21.9.99] by web9504.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 01 Dec 2000 08:46:53 PST Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:46:53 -0800 (PST) From: Killian Roger Subject: Re: More film stuff To: classics@u.washington.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-787290710-975689213=:78536" --0-787290710-975689213=:78536 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Yes, the allegation that Walter Hill took Xenophon's Anabasis as the basis for his film has been stated repeatedly and you can read more about this allegation at Teleport City or at The Reel Site. The immediate inspiration for the film, was a novel by Sol Yurick that was apparently at least partly inspired by Xenophon. --- Kim Shahabudin wrote:> The 1979 Walter Hill film The Warriors was on> British TV the other night, and I was asked by> someone the following day whether it was true that> it was based on an incident from ancient Greek> history recounted in either Herodotus or Xenophon.> As I fell asleep after the first five minutes and> snored soundly all through the rest of the film, I> couldn't help him out. Does this ring any bells with> anyone?> > Kim> > -------------------------------> Kim Shahabudin> Dept of Classics> University of Reading> -------------------------------> --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. --0-787290710-975689213=:78536 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Yes, the allegation that Walter Hill took Xenophon's Anabasis as the basis for his film has been stated repeatedly and you can read more about this allegation at Teleport City or at The Reel Site. The immediate inspiration for the film, was a novel by Sol Yurick that was apparently at least partly inspired by Xenophon.

--- Kim Shahabudin wrote: > The 1979 Walter Hill film The Warriors was on > British TV the other night, and I was asked by > someone the following day whether it was true that > it was based on an incident from ancient Greek > history recounted in either Herodotus or Xenophon. > As I fell asleep after the first five minutes and > snored soundly all through the rest of the film, I > couldn't help him out. Does this ring any bells with > anyone? > > Kim > > ------------------------------- > Kim Shahabudin > Dept of Classics > University of Reading > ------------------------------- >


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