Fight On!
Posted on 05/01/2007 6:37:11 PM PDT by AnnaZ
I had never heard of “Gates of Fire” until a lib(!) mentioned it to me at the pool the other day, in relation to 300. Guess I’ll have to read it now.
= )
Frank Miller’s comments the other day have also got to make some folks feel all warm and fuzzy. (Myself included.)
“I am ready for my Fatwa now” is a great Frank Miller line!
So ... did they use ketchup for blood?
I highly recommend Gates of Fire and Last of the Amazons by Stephen Pressfield.
...and the movie (300)is a MUST see, at an IMAX theater if possible
The place could use some trees and landscaping. It looks like the surface of the moon.
Actually, if you know your history, you will see that the ancient Persians were a better group of people than the fascistic, sodomy loving Spartans.
There's some truth to that, but there was more at stake than just Spartan culture per se. Certain Persian rulers were enlightened, like Cyrus, but I wouldn't count Xerxes among them. The Spartans were cruel bastards, but they were instrumental in defending Greece as a whole, and therefore Western Civilization. Greece had a wonderful, spectacular flowering of intellect and art, but ironically it needed the rough men of Sparta to defend it.
In the words of Orwell, "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." The Spartans got one thing right, and that was enough: Greek culture as a whole was worth defending against those would enslave it for the mere glory of a king who fancied himself a god.
In years to come, people looking at this picture (Palace of Xerxes) will wonder, did it look like that before, or only after, the US obliterated the Iranian nuclear facilities. The place looks like something one of the Mars rovers would have found if there had been Martians on Mars a billion years ago.
Glad to see that you can take a joke...
I highly recommend it, too.
What have they done for us lately though?
LOL
Terror and oppression is today’s contribution to the world.
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