I hated the first episode...having a B.A. in ancient history and one in classic cultures makes it hard to not pick that kind of stuff apart....I hated 300 as well....there are just so many problems with both of them.
The only series or movie anybody has ever come close on to be being historically accurate while at the same time being entertaining was the series Rome on HBO...it only ran 2 seasons although it was only supposed to be one show so they did pretty good...a lot of people wanted it brought back but it cost HBO millions upon millions to make so they stopped doing it....I'd advise buying seasons 1 and 2...there is plenty of violence and sex which was pretty much the pastimes in Rome.
My biggest problem is that they take such great stories as they were like the story of the Battle of Thermopylae and the story of the slave uprising led by Spartacus during the Third Servile War and just turn it into something it wasn't at all when what really happened was amazing to begin with...and before anybody says anything I know we don't have exact details on Thermopylae but we know there were at least 7,000 Greek allies and there were certainly no Persian mutants...plus they pretty much took the naval battle out of the movie and the strategic importance of the Athenian navy holding so the Greeks couldn't be flanked from the sea....of course little is also know about Spartacus as well but that doesn't mean they have to fabricate Roman culture...at least keep that part in place.
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That an inspired word will come across your tongue
Hands moving upward to propel the situation
Have simply halted
And now the conversation's done
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