“300” was based on a novel (i.e. fiction).
This sounds like a sour librul objecting to vilification of their favorite true terrorist regimes. You know, the "hate-America" first crowd. I wouldn't want to live in ancient Athens or Sparta, but it was a damn sight better than megalomanial savagery perpetrated by big-T tyrants. When Delios in the "300" says the greeks were fighting for "reason and justice", this is closer to the historical truth than other statements which might resonate with us (freedom). The pagan forms weren't perfect--oligarchy, democracy, kingdom--but to float Persia as a model regime is dark and dilusional.
Didn’t Sparta and the Persian Empire join forces to sack Athens? Politics from 2500 years ago is still causing people to argue. Amazing. Besides it was a movie, you want history read a book, not a comic book.
Persia? Slaves? Reparations Now!