re: #572 LudwigVanQuixote

I have read both. I am also very fond of Gates of Fire by Preston (which is the best researched historical fiction I’ve read about it).

re: #569 Alouette

It was certainly originally a comic. I generally love Frank Miller. In this case, it pissed me off immensely for the reasons given. I should have specified, that even comics ought not try to improve on history.

What made me roll my eyes the most was the Spartans being all up about “freedom!”

It was a fucking military dictatorship and the Spartan soldiers made their chops as kids by selling out ‘dissidents’ to the people in charge.

I laughed through the movie. It was that or cry.