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300 Vs History.

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:44 pm
by Anach
http://bayareanewsgroup.com/multimedia/ ... 031407.pdf

Sure, it’s fun to watch 300 nearly naked Spartans — abandoned by the rest of Greece — ignoring their own battle tactics to fight
off a million invaders. But don’t mistake this for history. Here’s how Zack Snyder’s new movie “300” (based on Frank Miller’s
graphic novel) stacks up against the textbooks on what really happened 2,500 years ago at Thermopylae. (OK, 2,487 years.)