300 and One? More Spartans on Horizon

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The Sacred Band of Thebes, however, was definitely homsexual. The rationale was that lovers fighting in pairs fought more fiercely, and were therefore better soldiers.

Also, there's no evidence that Spartiate men were typically homosexual. The Greek word "pederast" didn't NECESSARILY mean the same thing to them as it does to us today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_pederasty

There are reliable sources that tell us that Spartan pederasty was never sexual in nature, and in fact tell us that anal penetration between two men was a crime in Sparta.

"Actually Watch TeleVision, the movie is quite accurate to the actual battle."

Actually, no it's not. It's only (vaguely) accurate to Herodotus' account of the battle. Well, the problem with that is a) he wasn't there to witness it, b) he's a known liar, and c) his idea of history was that it was okay to bend the truth if it was more entertaining that way.

There is scant evidence that the Battle of Thermopylae happened at all, let alone that it happened how Herodotus said. It's just as likely that Leonidas attempted to ally Sparta with Persia and was killed in the negotiations. Or that Leonidas committed ritual suicide at Thermopylae, and the Persians passed the site totally unopposed. There is no real corroborating evidence for Herodotus' melodramatic crap, and Spartan might was more or less ALWAYS a legend, and not a reality.

No more! No more! The first movie was bad enough.

A possible 300 2, 300+1, 301...whatever you want to call a sequel...I thought the first one was ok, not all that great but still a good movie, but it is very rare for a sequel to be as good as the first movie.

I read something about the Matrix series in one of the previous comments, that is a great example! The first one was a great movie and still is, the sequel wasn't to bad but when they came out with the 3rd one, I was glad it ended because the fight scenes just looked so animated and not real at all...I hope that isn't the case if there's a 300 part 2.

I think it would be kool to start rite at the exact point that 300 left off at, and make a second movie entirely on that battle, BUT...no more movies after that!

Will this become like the Matrix 2 and 3 all over again. The first was great. When studios get excited over sales to make a sequel it spells failure.

I welcome your crappy movie! I look forward to viewing it re-authored with a rifftrax
soundtrack. Thank you hollywood for your crap.

Debating which of the Greek nations was 'better' than the others is a bit silly; modern (Western) morality can't comprehend the general misery and horror endemic to the everyday lives of even the most successful individuals who lived at the time. Slavery in Greece was widespread, and was rarely questioned. The Spartans were reviled for enslaving other Greeks-- the Messenians-- and were widely considered to be fanatical idiots. Films like '300' are a nice fantasy, but the evidence seems to indicate that most Spartans were extremely corrupt, ignorant and violent. (FWIW, all Spartan warriors were also homosexual. Men lived strictly apart from their women, and sexual relationships were enforced among the ranks in order to promote cohesion and unity.)
Almost of the historical record for '300' comes from Herodotus, who was writing 50 or so years after the events he describes. The Spartans were integral to the defense of the Greek peninsula, but they left most of the heavy lifting to the Athenians. All of the Peloponnesian Greeks insisted on withdrawing behind the Isthmus of Corinth...which would have been a disaster, had it happened. The Athenians insisted on making a naval attack at Salamis under Themistocles, which destroyed the Persian fleet and cut their supply lines. Mardonius stayed behind with the Persian land forces, and was destroyed at Plataea, but he certainly would have prevailed if the Persian naval force was still around.
The Spartans had very little to lose during the Persian Wars, aside from their slaves. Spartan forces were often wary of leaving home for too long, as the Helots took every opportunity to revolt against them. Athens was sacked and burned prior to the battle of Salamis, and the Athenian countryside was ravaged. During the subsequent Peloponnesian Wars, Sparta actually enlisted the help of the Persians against Athens, and this certainly contributed to the widespread hatred against them.