It's kind of weird through, the 300 story is based around a tale written by Roman "historians" hundreds of years after the fact - how most people think of Sparta is all based on myths the Romans spread to portray a people and an ideal that they themselves wanted to live up too - it never
really existed. For instance they would bring up the 300 story to inspire young soldiers to be the best warriors they can be to live up to this ideal persona.
So already we know the 300 story is a story about the perfect White people defeating Arab, Black, Asian etc forces.
Perfect White People? Greeks and Middle Eastern peoples look about the same.
Then Miller gets his hands on it and the Persians are no longer the scholars and philosophers and amazing tacticians that they were they are a hungry deformed horde of a people made up of all these races with all deformities in the world rabid and hungry to defeat these perfect white soldiers. Honestly if you look at modern propaganda such as the Nazi stuff about Jews or even early comic book drawings of Asians the Persian army looks the same as these. It just builds to an incredibly right wing almost fascist feeling comic book.
That's not true. They weren't all deformed freaks. They were just soldiers mostly.
So the myth itself existed to be a Nationalistic tale and then Miller's interpretation and drawings just seem to intensify this. It's akin to someone doing an Alamo story and have the Mexicans portrayed as demonic sterotypes.
Not to say MILLER IS A RACIST but those feelings are ingrained in the story.
Sorry, who invited the Ancient Historian
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