300 - What did everyone think?

[hoplite14gr]

Ancient Greeks being afraid that some city states might aid the Persians declared the Persian Army guilty of AGOS (=sacriledge, the most heinous crime in ancient Greece) as a detterent.
The defence of the fatherland took the form of "crusade" against the foreign invader and that probably gave some hopiltes the moral excuse to anihilate their opponents and refusing quarter.
The Persian threat was constant and real until Alexander so the Persians were described negatively.

As for the film I will wait for the mobs to clear off the screens and I will see it in my leizure at later date.

Kind regards.