300: And now you know the rest of the (hi)story

I've blogged so much about reactions inspired about 300, let's reverse the perspective and see what it was that inspired 300 in the first place.

Dorothea Cantero at Sequential Tart writes about the history of the Battle of Thermopylae, and Spartan culture.

Was this really the harsh reality that was Sparta? What of Xerxes' army? Could his archers really “blot out the sun”? What of Spartan women; how did they live?