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the contrast between "the only free men the world has ever known" and the"slaves of Xerxes", which is exaggerated; Athens (not Sparta) offered some kind of freedom to its male citizens, over the backs of more slaves than the great king could have dreamed of

true but Greek slaves had it better then the rest of the world did; they lived the lives of poor peasents. Greece's fight for freedom was much like America's fight for freedom. We had slaves at the time too. I have always seen the story of Thermopylae as a story of a few fighting the many. The few where willing to die for what they believed.

I am also afraid that the movie is, in the present climate, disastrously ill-timed. If neoconservative pundits in the USA will not use it to show that we must invade Iran

Well I know my people, and even though we were pulled into a war in Iraq;I dont think we'll go for a war with Iran. The approval rating for the Iraq war is in the 30's, I doubt if Jesus could convince us to go to war with Iran( at this point anyway)