‘300’ Is a Misleading, Muscle-Bound Travesty of Ancient History

Hollywood would never grossly distort the Civil War or D-Day. So why let ‘300’ get by with mangling the 2,500-year-old Greco-Persian War?

James Romm

Published Mar. 13 2014 5:45AM EDT 

James Romm

romm@bard.edu

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