Iv read the historry iran the 300 movie is just a big big big lie?

Question

xerxes was so hand some and kind and herodots says that he was the most handsome man on the world and its intresting to know that king leonidus was gay he had wife and kids but he was gay but in this movie xerxes is so ! and also persian were blonde they were from the north of europe and simply they werent black ! and its just enough to go and read about cyrus the great xerxes garand father to find out how the persian king were

Answer 1

Persia's invasion of the Greek city-states was real, it was led by Xerxes and at Thermoplea a group of about 1000 men with a core of 300 heavily armored and armed Spartians held off an invading force of at least 100,000 Persians. The Spartians were all killed inflicting heavy losses on the Perians who eventually lost the war to the Greek city-states.

The gay thing doesn't even factor into society back then like it does today.

Never trust a movie to give you history, espically the newer movies.

Answer 2

Persians were from the north of Europe??? I guess then you could call them Vikings, huh? Geez, this is a MOVIE! And one based on a graphic comic not an encyclopedia. I'm still amazed that folks are getting riled over a movie that never, repeat never, claimed to be the truth. But Persians from Europe with blond hair is just too much. Where in the world did you get that information???

Answer 3

I have read Herodotus and Zenophon too, but are you asking if the movie '300' is a big lie, or just telling us the physical attributes of the Persians and/or the Spartans?

Answer 4

The action picture is barely one area of a historic past wherein relationships between Greeks and Persians grew to become into defined. in factor of incontrovertible fact that Greeks and Persians traded with one yet another long in the previous the outset of the Persian wars. whilst the Persian wars did commence, it had incredibly not something to do with the Greeks - it began whilst an ambitous Persian governor in Asia minor did not preserve the independence of his very own little kingdom. understanding that the Persian king grew to become into pissed off, the Persian governor grew to become to the Greeks for help screaming that the Persians had completed him the injustice. The Persians have been indignant that the Greeks have been given in contact in a concern that particularly had not something to do with them. at the same time as the war did unite Greece decrease than a easy reason, the Greek states endured to combat and intrigue against one yet another. That the Persians harboured no genuine hatred against the Greeks grew to become into considered in that the Athenian chief, Themistocles, escaped to Persia after he grew to become into voted out of workplace. The action picture portrays one ingredient of Persian-Greek courting, yet there is different ranges to that courting in a plenty wider historic context.

Answer 5

This movie is not at all accurate in its portrayal of the Persians, both in terms of the way they looked and the respective ideologies of both Sparta and Greece.
This movie is basically sadism married to sickly sweet sentimental patriotism(which the Spartans would never have subscribed to in any case)
The movie had good visuals, though-I'll give them that much.

Answer 6

Yes, it pretty much is. It's so biased towards the Greeks and does nothing to illustrate the true heroism of the Persians, an army known for their bravery and triumphs. But, that's Hollywood for you, showing only what people want to see and ignoring the facts.

Answer 7

It was based on a graphic novel, not history. So yeah, it is a little off.

Answer 8

no it wasnt a lie