Question about Frank Miller's "300" (EDIT: Now with pics!)

[scootermaster]

Any other thoughts?

 

[syzygy]

1 - creative license ? the film adapts miller's graphic novel not the writings of herodotus
2 - the trailer contained a number of other, um, elaborations that have no historical basis.
3 - the director may be mixing myth with what we know from the historical record. he may be seeing thermopylae from the 'eyes of the spartans' thereby incorporating
their religious ideas to justify their destiny and mission.
4 - the 'hole' may be a pit to a dungeon, a labyrinth, or other subterranean area. theseus walks through one such place to reach and kill the minotaur.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
Any other thoughts?

Xerces sent representatives to Sparta to get them to switch sides in the war. Leonidas threw them in to the nearest well. (In the movie)

According to Herodotus, heralds were not sent to Sparta and Athens by Xerxes as was the case a decade earlier. When Xerxes' father Darius had sent his emissaries to Sparta and Athens before the invasion of Marathon in 490 B.C. they had been thrown into a well by the Spartans and a pit by the Athenians.

 

[Bateluer]

We'll find out in March, when the movie is released.

 

[Mrvile]

I guess I've been living under a rock, but that movie looks really good!

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

In the graphic novel all you know is that it's near the marketplace and the guy will find plenty of "earth and water" in it. Likely it's a sewer.