In fact, “Rings” devotees may wish to avoid “300,” because after seeing Frank Miller’s widescreen illustrations come to life and start moving, leaping, hacking, gouging, tearing and bleeding all over their neighborhood IMAX, the Tolkien trilogy will be reduced to little more than the very long story of a schizophrenic Muppet and his curiously affectionate companions. And I love those movies!
Review of upcoming movie 300.
Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire, a novel dramaziation of Battle of Thermopylae , is recommended.
Tom Hollard’s Persian Fire is on my desk waiting to be read. His book on Roman Republic, Rubicon, is excellent and best introduction into Roman history.
I cannot even think about the scenario of world looks like today if Xerxes prevailed, especially at Salamis , and conquered Greece and rest of Europe.