>watch 300 >pretty good movie I thought >it actual

This is bait.

Anyway, Frank Miller probably invented less horseshit than Herodotos about that battle.

good threab! :o)

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>>505883
>reading the wiki article
>then reaching the conclusion that 300 the movie is an accurate depiction of the battle

Yeah, there's no way in hell this isn't a bait thread.

>>505889

Herodotus just reported what he heard and let people decide for themselves, a lot better than the historians who came after him if you ask me

>>505889
Herodotus didn't "invent" anything, he just reported what he could gather, and offered a disclaimer quite often. As for his account of the Battle of Thermopylae, what is your issue with it, exactly, apart from the "millions of Persians" (which the Greeks actually thought)?

>>505911
Sure was a better historian than you anon :)))

>>505917
>millions of Persians
This number just comes from the fact that Ancient Greek didn't really have a specific value attached to 'myriad'.

ITT: People who don't understand that someone writing about what people thought happened, is just as important as someone writing about what exactly happened.

>>505883
Watch Zulu

>>505883

>watch band of brothers
>pretty good series I thought

>it actually happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

What the fuck

300 is based on a comic losely based on that battle

>>505889
Herodotus' account is literally about 3 lines long.

>>507188
kek

>watch shoah
>pretty good movie i thought

>the holocaust never happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial

What the fuck

>>505883
>watch Rome
>pretty good series i tought

>it actually happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar

what the fuck

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>Venice actually existed
It was one of the most mind bending moments of my life

>>507321
>Ghetto of Venice

So that's where niggers come from.

>>505889
Hello Reddit

>>507188
Underrated post

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>yfw you realized sparta was real

>>505918
Never fucking reply to me again unless you're contributing to the thread.

>>507188

Excuse me sir, but I noticed you made a post about "band of brothers" which is a popular American TV series about American soldiers on the Western Front of World War 2. Well, the article you have linked clearly goes into far more than that, and in the interest of being punctual I would advise you to instead link the following article, as it would be more correct and relevant to your joke, as it were; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_II)

Thanks.

>>507726
It was a bit shit though. They were always at risk of a major revolt due to the shitty helot system.

>>505907
But anchors aren't bait

>>507310
Kek

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>>505883
>watch Kingdom of Heaven
>pretty good movie I thought

>it actually happened

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Crusade

What the fuck

>>505883
>the cheesiest lines are actually direct quotes

>>505903
>no spoodymang threads

>watch History Channel
>pretty good channel

>it actually happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_%28film%29

What the fuck

>watch the news
>pretty good programme

>it actually happened

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news

What the fuck

>>508127
>BBC
BIG BLACK CORP

Decent meme OP. I'll let this one live in the mind of a small population of /his/ posters for a week or two.

>watch porn
>pretty sexy scene I thought

>it actually happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse

What the fuck

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>>508104

>>505883
>Spartanfags think Thermopylae was some great victory
>Steamrolled in 3 days even with Greek revisionism

If it wasn't for Xerxes deciding he'd done enough when he burned Athens to cinders, the Greeks were fucked

>>505883
>>507188
>>507310
>>507317
>>507321
>>507786
>>508104
>>508127
The newest meme. Should be right up there along with >hre.

>not knowing this is a old ass maymay from /tv/ poking fun at murrikan education
i would like to see the board manager and file a complaint about the undankness level of this here fine couch philosophy and wiki-historian establishment

>>508270
I recommend suicide

>Submission? Well that's a bit of a problem. See, rumor has it the Athenians have already turned you down, and if those philosophers and, uh, boy-lovers have found that kind of nerve, then...

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>>505883
>tfw a maymay thread on a tangential board has more film discussion than any /tv/ thread

>>507749
:))))

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>>508409
Hello I'm the board's 4cc manager and I'd like to respond with a sincere fuck you I do what I want.

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>>508409
this
/tv/ master race

>>505883
The Spartans weren't all ninjas but they were even better in real life because the faced the 10,000 man charge and only dies from arrow flank

>>505883
This is a new meme now isn't it.

>>505903
I saw the movie and the greeks didn't have breastplates. That's not realistic at all. I was so disappointed.

>>505883
>watch passion of the christ
>pretty good movie I thought

>it was actually all bullshit

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity

What the fuck

>>505983
In the original Histories, an actual number IS given by Herodotus, however it is a number completely impossible for them to have produced at the time.

>>508418
>implying the spartans weren't just as gay

kek