HELLO PEOPLE MOST OF THOSE COMPLAINING ARE ELITIST SNOBS.
These are the same people with the ivory tower mentality that demand everything be taught with the dry excitement of sand.
They are irrelevant.
This is just a PR stunt.
The same ring leaders of this "outrage" are the same ones who were complaining about the closing ceremony at the 2004 olympics being not intelectual enough. (too much fun not enough culture)
I have been to Thermopole, I have seen the Leonidas memorial at the famous battle scene.
If anyone wants a comparison, these type of people were complaining about the Patriot.
Purists with no life.
Maybe, maybe not. People are touchy about their own history. Mel Gibson's "Apocolypto" was shown to a group of Mayans... who are also a touchy people. They panned it, too. Of course, it was the scholars and elitists among them who are the most articulate... and who are going to the ones quoted.
Apocolypto at least used a Mayan dialect, but still didn't do very well at the box office in Mayan country (south Mexico, Guatamala, Belize). Let's see how "300" does in Athens.