[R.W.Ratikal]

Terrorists are not heroes. Heroes do not wear masks to hide their iodinate or attack school buses from ambush or shoot up unarmed women and children. Terrorists are wormy little cowards who are not fit to lick the feet of their victims.

[JoeGar]

“300” was based on a novel (i.e. fiction).

[nonsporting]

What a bunch of revisionist hogwash. There's no evidence that Persia didn't enslave whole nations? Just look at the fighting force they assembled and sent west--arrayed with fighters from their conquered foes. They tried this trick (earth and water) on the Greeks and many of the northern kingdoms submitted, they not being strong enough to resist. However, the Spartans and their navied ally the Athenians did have the power. That's why the first real resistance occurred at Thermopylae and not the Isthmus.

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.

[Aruchu]

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.

[Altura Ct.]

Persia? Slaves? Reparations Now!