Wishing I Could Scrape 300 Off of My Eyeballs ...

Y'know, someday, someone should make a movie about the Battle of Thermopylae that doesn't confuse ancient Hellas with Middle Earth. Or the Persian Emperor Xerxes I with Jaye Davidson in Stargate.

Also, those familiar with ancient Spartan and Athenian sexual morés might pick up on the irony of a Spartan king calling Athenians "boy-lovers" ...