Hey, at least women could own property in Sparta; that's pretty rare for the ancient world.

Yes. I enjoyed 300, too; it's sitting on my shelf as we speak, and assuredly not from the library. (They shelve it under "T," and I'm not going to be there for quite some time.) I have enjoyed quite a few ahistorical movies. However, they tend to be ahistorical movies with plot. (And, yes, I thought 300 had a plot. Not the most complex one in the world, but a plot nonetheless.)

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"