#xerxes 300

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300 (2006)

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as a brazillian, I think all fanarts of michael are hilarious because he looks exactly like this very famous character known as the Fool (or the Madman) aka Licurgo Orival Umbelino Cafiaspirino de Oliveira, from the internationaly famous brazilliam comics Turma da Mônica (Mônica and Friends):

also him in the Turma da Mônica Jovem series (think, like Naruto Shippuden):

(yes, that is astro boy and yes, that is the girl from ribbon no kishi. yes, it was an official colab. Osamu Tezuka is best friends with brazillian writer Maurício de Souza)

[xceanlynx]

lol for some reason Rodrigo Santoro has gained a lot of new fans because foreigners for some reason started watching Hilda Furacão... like this is so random 😭🤣

[arioloyal]

In the "300" movie, They used our history and names without even knowing how our kings looked like :)))))

How they showed immortals:

How they actually were:

And this from the assassin creed game:

How they showed king xerxes:

And how he actually looked like:

Reigned 486-465 B.C

(Picture from Persepolis)

And arthemisia....

Anyway...

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[boyerai]

Leaked footage from history’s most toxic rivals 👀 Source: BoyerAI

[kebriones]

i'm on this alien xerxes' side now idc he's hot and cool and has big puppy eyes. kill all them spartans they are annoying and want to die anyway

[joebloggshere]

Persian Fire by Tom Holland

What a terrific read! Although in truth, I actually listened to half the book as another of my freebies from Audible. I had heard of the battle of Marathon and, through one of my fave films, The 300, knew about the battle at Thermopylae and this book covers them both.

Themistocles, Xerxes, Salamis, Athens, Thebans, Argives, Pericles, Sparta and Spartans etc, the heroes, villains and locations of the piece whose names we have come across but didn’t necessarily know come to life in this non-fiction book, that reads like a novel.

Highly recommend.

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300: Rise Of An Empire (2014)

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Funny how Rise Of An Empire is better than 300 in any way by doing the bare minimum. It's still not good, but instead of cringe and rage, I'm actually having fun with this movie. And by bare minimum I mean it dares to say that the Spartan ultra militaristic lifestyle of violence and abuse is bad actually.

And Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) actually gets to kick some ass like she should! Good for her!

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[popculturetarot]

Pride goeth before the fall, the reversal of the Five of Swords is foolish arrogance, reveling in a victory that only plants the seeds of your own defeat. ‬