09-13-2007, 05:13 PM
Saying 300 is historically INACCURATE is an UNDERSTATEMENT. Roughly 90-95% of the movie is total fantasy.
-No, the Persians did not have grenades (Tang-Song gunpowder or Han saltpeter) in the 5th century BCE.
-The hoplites did NOT break the phalanx formation to fight.
-There were 300 Spartans + at LEAST 7500 other Greek soldiers at Thermopylae.
-There were 300 Spartans + at LEAST 700 Thespians and most likely 300 Thebans at the last stand.
-Persians did not have a million soldiers. They had 300,000 max by modern estimates, and only a fraction of that fought at Thermpyale. (logistically speaking, a million man army marching from Iran to Greece wasn't feasible)
-There was a huge Athenian navy preventing the Persians from flanking the soldiers at Thermopyale.
-Spartans wore heavy bronze muscle curiass armor.
-At Thermopyale, the Persians did not have giant oliphaunt like-war elephants nor giant armored rhinos.
-The Spartans were the biggest dictators of ancient Greece, and were not fighting for democracy. (2/3 of the Spartan populace were enslaved neighbors called Helots)
-It was part of Spartan trainning to go out into the countryside and murder a Helot
-Persians were not suicidial as portrayed in the movie.
-The Persian 10,000 immortals aren't ninjas with opera-masks.
-Xerxes is not a 10 foot tall, dark skinned metrosexual she-male with thousands of gold body piercings on his body.
-Xerxes was never at Thermopyale.
-Persians are not dark skinned Arabs. Their skin color was equivalent or even lighter than the tanned Mediterranean Greeks due to their Aryan background. Persians are Indo-Ianian-Europeans
-Spartans had 2 kings ruling simultaneously.
-Spartan males (even high ranking officals) lived in barracks, not the luxurous palaces you see in the movie.
-Oracle of Delphi did not say Sparta will burn to the ground.
-Spartans did not speak with Irish accents, and not all Spartans had 6 packs.
and hundreds of other inaccuracies I can't remember at this moment...
Anyways I thought the movie was awesome!
-No, the Persians did not have grenades (Tang-Song gunpowder or Han saltpeter) in the 5th century BCE.
-The hoplites did NOT break the phalanx formation to fight.
-There were 300 Spartans + at LEAST 7500 other Greek soldiers at Thermopylae.
-There were 300 Spartans + at LEAST 700 Thespians and most likely 300 Thebans at the last stand.
-Persians did not have a million soldiers. They had 300,000 max by modern estimates, and only a fraction of that fought at Thermpyale. (logistically speaking, a million man army marching from Iran to Greece wasn't feasible)
-There was a huge Athenian navy preventing the Persians from flanking the soldiers at Thermopyale.
-Spartans wore heavy bronze muscle curiass armor.
-At Thermopyale, the Persians did not have giant oliphaunt like-war elephants nor giant armored rhinos.
-The Spartans were the biggest dictators of ancient Greece, and were not fighting for democracy. (2/3 of the Spartan populace were enslaved neighbors called Helots)
-It was part of Spartan trainning to go out into the countryside and murder a Helot
-Persians were not suicidial as portrayed in the movie.
-The Persian 10,000 immortals aren't ninjas with opera-masks.
-Xerxes is not a 10 foot tall, dark skinned metrosexual she-male with thousands of gold body piercings on his body.
-Xerxes was never at Thermopyale.
-Persians are not dark skinned Arabs. Their skin color was equivalent or even lighter than the tanned Mediterranean Greeks due to their Aryan background. Persians are Indo-Ianian-Europeans
-Spartans had 2 kings ruling simultaneously.
-Spartan males (even high ranking officals) lived in barracks, not the luxurous palaces you see in the movie.
-Oracle of Delphi did not say Sparta will burn to the ground.
-Spartans did not speak with Irish accents, and not all Spartans had 6 packs.
and hundreds of other inaccuracies I can't remember at this moment...
Anyways I thought the movie was awesome!