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Sorry, but Artemisia was a real person, (Queen of Halicarnassus not Persia) and she did command ships at the Battle of Salamis.

Yeah, but did she crash her ship into the Greek general's so that she could slay ten greek warriors before she fought with the greek general one-on-one for ten minutes? Because she did in the movie...

Also, as a bonus, they had the Spartan queen, played by Lena Headley, lead the counter attack of Spartans, slashing and hacking her way through the top Persian shock troops. Yeah, remember all that exposition they did in the 300 movie where they showed how the Spartan men were trained from birth for combat? Forget all that - a skinny woman with no training can be the point of the spear any day, with all the super-buffed, ripped-ab, professional warriors following behind picking off her leftovers.

This movie is a left-wing comic book adaptation of the story, just as the original movie was.

Yeah, but did she crash her ship into the Greek general's...

What she really did do was ram and sink one of her own ships that got in the way. I believe she was a renegade Greek, too. I wouldn't cross her.

The idea that this was united Greece defying the barbarians is comic-book stuff. A significant number of the Greeks were perfectly happy to welcome the Persian army.

I have to see this but am under no illusions it will be any more accurate than its predecessor. Got a Classics Professor friend who spits at the mention of 300 but will admit under pressure that he's seen it...twice.

Spartan women were also combat trained although not sent into battle. The move was over wrought obviously, take a look at what the men were doing and ask yourself if any guy could do that no matter how good a shape he was in.

But that is no reason to write out people who were there because they don't fit with your world view.