C: Is for the clash of the cinema

The controversy that the film 300 is generating comes from all sides. Everyone wants their ten seconds of fame and jumps on the bandwagon at the slightest provocation. Though the team of 300 hired a leading authority others have sought to dispute his reputation. Which goes to show you can always be up for ridicule. Ephraim Lytle, assistant professor of Hellenistic History at the University of Toronto, states that 300 selectively idealizes Spartan society in a "problematic and disturbing" fashion. It also portrays Persians as monsters living in hedionistic society and non-Spartan Greeks as weak. He suggests that the film's moral universe would have seemed as "bizarre to ancient Greeks as it does to modern historians. Military historian Victor Davis Hanson, who wrote the foreword to a 2007 re-issue of the graphic novel, states that the film demonstrates a specific affinity with the original material. It captures the martial law of ancient Sparta and represents Thermopylae as a "clash of civilizations". He remarks that Simonides, Aeschylus and Herodotus viewed Thermopylae as a battle against slavery against a barbaric nation. He further states that the film portrays the battle in a "surreal" manner, and that the intent was to entertain and shock. Touraj Daryaee, associate professor of Ancient History at California State University, Fullerton, criticizes the central theme of the movie,%