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

But

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

speaking of the last samurai, it was the first film i saw in a theatre

Tht was an awesome film man