Despite the fact that we are taught international history, we know much of the ancient greek one (history/mythology). I believe that 300 had one of the less distorted plots ever, however there some exaggerations that where never truth. Speculated quite and came to a conclusion :
1st) The Ephors. The only truth about the effors in that movie is that they where 5.
Ephors were something like Presidents of Sparta, they where elected each year by the spartan citizens in an open-voting. Citizens were refered to pure people of Sparta not strangers or slaves, however slaves that were extraordinary brave in battle were rewarded by the name of the resident. Furthermore they could vote or stand for election if they were older than 18.
2nd) The original name ain't "hot gates", but Thermopyles as in Greek which means in Ancient Greek "thermal gates" (like thermal springs, baths or uknown), those who translated it did it obviously from a lexicon with no proper etymology, or it was a more commercial name. According to history, they were a narrow passageway of 6 metres, it was ideal for that battle as to enclose the persian army and being more able to defeat them. Now that passage has widthen really much, about 7Km anyway.
3rd) Spartans used to have more than one wifes, the called slave-women/girls who were their lovers but they never took castody of their children with them
4th) Last but not least, if 300 was a drama story (kinda), the ancient greek drama/tragedy prototype does not allow deaths on stage, however it would be absolutely st*pid to use it at this time.
I'll seek my 1st grade history books which are about ancient worldwide history and notify you if i skipped something.
By the way the movie that I could tell thousands of distortions in the plot is TROY.
1st) The Ephors. The only truth about the effors in that movie is that they where 5.
Ephors were something like Presidents of Sparta, they where elected each year by the spartan citizens in an open-voting. Citizens were refered to pure people of Sparta not strangers or slaves, however slaves that were extraordinary brave in battle were rewarded by the name of the resident. Furthermore they could vote or stand for election if they were older than 18.
2nd) The original name ain't "hot gates", but Thermopyles as in Greek which means in Ancient Greek "thermal gates" (like thermal springs, baths or uknown), those who translated it did it obviously from a lexicon with no proper etymology, or it was a more commercial name. According to history, they were a narrow passageway of 6 metres, it was ideal for that battle as to enclose the persian army and being more able to defeat them. Now that passage has widthen really much, about 7Km anyway.
3rd) Spartans used to have more than one wifes, the called slave-women/girls who were their lovers but they never took castody of their children with them
4th) Last but not least, if 300 was a drama story (kinda), the ancient greek drama/tragedy prototype does not allow deaths on stage, however it would be absolutely st*pid to use it at this time.
I'll seek my 1st grade history books which are about ancient worldwide history and notify you if i skipped something.
By the way the movie that I could tell thousands of distortions in the plot is TROY.
