My wife says that the reason for the deformity of the traitor in the movie "300" was caused by the Spartans being a people who inbred.
2007-08-17 12:05:15 · 7 answers · asked by internationalgirl_162002 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Spartans were a small city-state. I'm sure they married people from around town or from their high school (lol) but I think with the population of a city they probably were not marrying brother to sister.
Also the Spartans had a very rigorous state system. Everything was for the good of the state/people. All babies were inspected and had to be found acceptable. A deformed baby would not be allowed to live.
2007-08-17 14:23:40 · answer #1 · answered by beth l 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Spartans did indeed consider inbred children to be a regular occurrence, due to their rather wild sexual practices. I doubt the particular character in the movie was deformed due to inbreeding, because, as someone above me said, the Spartans killed deformed infants at birth.
The deformity was more likely a character design choice to create an impression on the viewer, perhaps implying a connection between a deformed body and a corrupt soul.
2007-08-17 21:05:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The movie 300 was based on a comic, not on history. Spartans had the delightful habit to kill their deformed and/or handicapped children so there couldn't be an adult like that traitor.
Inbreeding is a problem when the stock is too small and there were a few thousands Spartans running around, enough not to have that risk.
2007-08-17 19:30:37 · answer #3 · answered by Cabal 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
anybody deformed in the spartan society was killed from birth .. so what happen in the movie was'nt right. if the spartans had over 300 ppl to breed with then they had a good genie pool.
2007-08-17 20:29:29 · answer #4 · answered by ♥lois c♥ ☺♥♥♥☺ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the movie 300 is not even close to being historically accurate. Therefore any one reason is as good as any other.
2007-08-17 19:18:57 · answer #5 · answered by Rob M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I don't think that is historically accurate, ALL the Greek city-states were great travelers and traders, and they kept broadening their gene pool, not restricting it.
2007-08-17 20:00:12 · answer #6 · answered by marconprograms 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Didn't/doesn't everybody?! The evidence surrounds you.
2007-08-17 22:17:54 · answer #7 · answered by John R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋