300: The Truth Behind (Making Heroes out of Terrorists)

Spenta ^ | 8/20/07 | Spenta

[Fairview]

Dude, that’s hilarious. You put WAY too much time and effort into it—but it was worth it.

[Thunder 6]

My God, this is too funny! Thanks for the laugh!
Regards,

[Tao Yin]

The opening of the History by Herodotus states...

in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the Barbarians from losing their due meed of glory...

Claiming the Herodotus was anti Persian is a bold face lie.

[nonsporting]

What a bunch of revisionist hogwash. There's no evidence that Persia didn't enslave whole nations? Just look at the fighting force they assembled and sent west--arrayed with fighters from their conquered foes. They tried this trick (earth and water) on the Greeks and many of the northern kingdoms submitted, they not being strong enough to resist. However, the Spartans and their navied ally the Athenians did have the power. That's why the first real resistance occurred at Thermopylae and not the Isthmus.

This sounds like a sour librul objecting to vilification of their favorite true terrorist regimes. You know, the "hate-America" first crowd. I wouldn't want to live in ancient Athens or Sparta, but it was a damn sight better than megalomanial savagery perpetrated by big-T tyrants. When Delios in the "300" says the greeks were fighting for "reason and justice", this is closer to the historical truth than other statements which might resonate with us (freedom). The pagan forms weren't perfect--oligarchy, democracy, kingdom--but to float Persia as a model regime is dark and dilusional.

[Caipirabob]

Glad you folks enjoyed it, I meant to post just one at first. Then I did a search at Tinypic and they were too much to resist...

[Aruchu]

Didn’t Sparta and the Persian Empire join forces to sack Athens? Politics from 2500 years ago is still causing people to argue. Amazing. Besides it was a movie, you want history read a book, not a comic book.

[martin_fierro]

(just saw it for the first time)

[Caipirabob]

LOL! I just go to Tinypic now for references. I just plug in the search word and since I store all my stuff there, I get it and all the other ones people have uploaded. It's an endless repository for laughs!

[martin_fierro]

[Caipirabob]

Oh LOL!

[martin_fierro]

Just tried that, with no luck. < |:(~

[Caipirabob]

I used "Sparta" for my search. Try not to drink any milk!

[Caipirabob]

Someone please stop me! LOL!

[jetson]

Well done!

[martin_fierro]

I l0l'd.

[Altura Ct.]

Persia? Slaves? Reparations Now!

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

To equate ancient Persia with modern day Iran, an islamofacist state, is like trying to equate good with evil; like trying to equate freedom with the demofacists now in control of the Congress.