From [a href="vny!://www.livescience.com/history/070312_300_movie.html"]livescience.com[/a]. The author, Ephraim Lytle, makes me laugh- you mean Hollywood shot a movie and made shit up?? I'm SHOCKED, SHOCKED I TELL YOU!! OMG, OMG!!!
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The battle of Thermopylae was real, but how real is the movie "300"? Ephraim Lytle, assistant professor of hellenistic history at the University of Toronto, has seen it and offers his view. This article first appeared in the [a href="vny!://www.thestar.com/article/190493"]Toronto Star[/a] and is republished here with permission.[/em] [/span] [p class="style1"]History is altered all the time. What matters is how and why. Thus I see no reason to quibble over the absence in 300 of breastplates or modest thigh-length tunics. I can see the graphic necessity of sculpted stomachs and three hundred Spartan-sized packages bulging in spandex thongs. On the other hand, the ways in which 300 selectively idealizes Spartan society are problematic, even disturbing.[/p][p class="style1"]Full stupid story: [a href="vny!://www.livescience.com/history/070312_300_movie.html"]vny!://www.livescience.com/history/070312_300_movie.html[/a]
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