I'm looking at this film interpretation of the 300 much in the same light that I looked upon the 13th Warrior. Sure, its based of a graphic novel which is loosely based on history. :) But it was a fun romp none-the-less.
Its a pity we didn't get the line of "Go marry a good man and sire good children" from Leonidas though ;)
Now I wonder if I need to learn ancient greek to properly apreciate it all. After all, why would I want to read Plutarch in the latin or english versions, when I can obtain copies of the original greek?
Made me want to run a D&D game set in 500BC Greece though :)
Mind you, those greek historians did bump the numbers somewhat (at least according to the line of thought which I kinda agree with - logistics and all) still, even with the smallest numbers of persians (according to modern estimates) the odds were 10:1 which is staggering (and no less intimidating than the 7000:1 depicted by the graphic novel)
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Its a pity we didn't get the line of "Go marry a good man and sire good children" from Leonidas though ;)
Now I wonder if I need to learn ancient greek to properly apreciate it all. After all, why would I want to read Plutarch in the latin or english versions, when I can obtain copies of the original greek?
Made me want to run a D&D game set in 500BC Greece though :)
Mind you, those greek historians did bump the numbers somewhat (at least according to the line of thought which I kinda agree with - logistics and all) still, even with the smallest numbers of persians (according to modern estimates) the odds were 10:1 which is staggering (and no less intimidating than the 7000:1 depicted by the graphic novel)