Message from @Duke of Txtspeak
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Sparta was not an absolute monarchy
It was a dual monarchy with a significant amount of checks on royal power
oh?
Two kings, each had a veto over the other
And there was also a council of aristocrats who had the power to basically impeach a king if they fucked up too badly
Now this shit was NOT representative
This wasnt Athens
But it was there
to be fair though, slaves weren't really uncommon back then
Yeah, but the Spartans had a LOT of slaves
Like, there was 7 slaves for every spartan by the time of the Persian invasion
yeah, i'm not saying they are absolved of any wrong doing.
The spartans defending the pass didn't even win, but they put up a good enough fight anway.
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persian invasion was pretty close to the end of the greek empire, yeah?
Funnily enough there is actually a bottomless hole as featured in the movie there in greece
*The economy* <:HONK:550452055140204554>
Here's something interesting
That scene where they throw the persians down
Did actually happen
It did not happen in Sparta
It happened in athens
Athenian politicians got so pissed, they threw the Persian envoys into a well
All good stories are exaggerations of the truth
If they weren't they'd be documentaries.
Or least biographies
Would've kinda sucked if it was the athenians doing it in the movie
even those are little bit fucky in parts
Athenians were low energy
Still needed time to power up on eating gyro's
The Spartans were always ready.
I'd disagree, they were basically the Soviets of the ancient world
lel
I mean, the whole invasion happened because Atheniens were trying to spread democracy to some cities under persian control
Much like the soviets tried to spread communism
And they scared the shit out of Sparta and Persia
unlike my hate and resentment of prequel video games that occur before a film, i actually am a big fan of historical action films
wherein the former, you're usually some overpowered badass and only lose because of fucking cut scenes that invalidate any and all effort on the players behalf. like having an impossible boss that you can defeat through gameplay, but a following cutscene has you get stabbed or something cause of 'muh continuity'
with the latter, i usually know the outcome of historical films, so it's not me deciding the fate of the characters. Even knowing they'll lose in the end, it's still great to see a defiant last stand against history
while not exactly a historically accurate film, the last samurai did that sort of thing, and it was pretty fucking awesome