300
By mikgreg
@mikgreg (9)
Philippines
March 16, 2007 9:47am CST
Have you seen the movie 300? It's best that they did not put in stars that are well known and adored, but it's still not like the Spartans that they described, the soldiers i saw in the movie are good looking and looked like models. Spartans are supposed to be barbarians with barbaric looks, i don't know, what do you think?
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@tala91285 (1074)
• Philippines
23 May 07
Just because they were great warriors didn't mean that they were barbarians. Greeks in that era were already civilized - they had territories, laws, traditions and cultures. The Spartans were Greeks who excelled in battle. They start training as children and are forced to extremes in order for them to prove that they are worthy of being called a "Spartan". It's kind of like the discipline Greeks from Athens placed in learning and politics.
@gberlin (3836)
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16 Mar 07
I disagree that the Spartans were barbarians. Persia had already reached their peak as a world leader. It was end of and era for Persia and the beginning of a Greek empire. Out of all the Greek city-states, Sparta was the most disciplined. Uncivilized people were not that disciplined.
