#WHEN WAS THE MOVIE 300 MADE PROFESSIONAL#

I would be astounded if there's a primary source that mentions any such thing, but if you can point me to one I'd appreciate it. The thing about the masks is rather bizarre and, since Herodotus doesn't mention masks, is almost certainly wrong. The total Persian invasion army is usually estimated in the 100,000 to 200,000 range. 'The dress of these troops consisted of the tiara, or soft felt cap, embroidered tunic with sleeves, a coat of mail looking like the scales of a fish, and trousers for arms they carried light wicker shields, quivers slung below them, short spears, powerful bows with cane arrows, and short swords swinging from belts beside the right thigh.' The only place they are mentioned is in Herodotus. Here is for-real surviving ancient Greek soldier kit:ДЄnd here's a vase made at the time showing Greek soldiers: That stuff is thoroughly well understood and there're surviving examples of most of their kit. Hence Greek soldiers were called hoplites. The Greek shield you're describing is called a hoplon. Your comment sent me back to check and you're quite right, the Immortals did indeed try a frontal assault before they went for the flanking march over the mountain (it's in section 211). He wrote that only 40 years after the real battle. Here's a link to an online version: The History of Herodotus, Volume 2 by Herodotus From the link, scroll down til you see 201 at the start of a paragraph, and start reading. His description of the battle starts at Book 7, sections 201 to 233. If you want to see the original source from which everyone takes their version of the story, then you need to read a book called The Histories, by a guy called Herodotus.

#WHEN WAS THE MOVIE 300 MADE PROFESSIONAL#

I should add that professional historians like to put on 300 at parties, and then everyone rolls about the floor laughing and calling out the mistakes while they drink beer and throw popcorn. It sounds like the documentary got it mostly right. Maybe they were just making up all the stuff. They had historians on the show giving commentary who seemed to know what they were talking about. There was so many of the bodies of the immortals that the immortals themselves had to remove them so that they could continue with their vain advance because there were too many bodies to climb over. The immortals body armor was made of thin metal easily penetrable by the Spartans spearheads and swords. The Spartans shields were metal backed by the thick hardwood with 10 pound helmets and body armor. The immortals did not scream or shout or make a sound they tried to intimidate the enemy by the silence as they approached not making a sound like ghosts. Their faces were clad in a strange type of black cloth where they could see out of but you could not see into like a tinted windshield. They had no metal helmets their shields were made of wicker. Here's a summary of the real thing: Summary of and commentary on Herodotus' Histories, book 7Д¬lick to expand.in the documentary television show said the immortals numbered 10,000 they were the second wave of attack at the pass.

There's also the minor detail that any Greek phalanx that fought like they do in the movie would be dead in about five minutes. Leonidas ordered all the Greeks to break past the Immortals, except for his own Spartans, the Thebans (who were ready to surrender), and the Thespians (who were good friends of the Spartans and determined to die with them). When dawn came, the Greeks discovered a Persian unit in their rear. They routed a Greek camp of 1,500 that was supposed to be holding that flank. Then the Immortals in the dead of night forced a passage over the mountains. In the narrow pass, the 4,000 Greeks comfortably held for days against the Persian regulars. Of course heavy infantry carried better weaponry and armour than a light unit. The Immortals were an elite special forces unit, to use modern terms, roughly equivalent to SAS or Rangers. The movie doesn't quite mention 92% of the defending side. It was actually fought by 300 Spartans and 3,700 Greeks from other cities. I'm afraid from that point on though, 300 is nothing but epic fail. The last stand at Thermopylae is the most famous holding action in all of human history, so yes, I guess you could say the movie's based on one fact.

When was the movie 300 made