![]() But I guess if we were going to do that, we’d have to talk about how the Spartans were totally gay. I realize that this would probably make the Spartans who swallow this propaganda look a bit mindless, but hey, wouldn’t it be nice to depict both sides realistically? That would be really interesting. ![]() It acts as a prequel and sequel to the events chronicled in Millers earlier series 300, a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae and garnered a mixed reception. OK, that’s all well and fine, but if you’re going to tell a story from a point of view that you don’t want your audience to personally adopt, the onus is on you as the writer to show your readers that the narrator is unreliable. Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander is a 2018 historically inspired comic book limited series written and illustrated by Frank Miller. That’s the reason they were fighting against 80-foot elephants and that’s why Xerxes was portrayed as much larger-than-life figure and given these traits that the Spartans would their enemies. For this story, the approach was to tell this story the way the Spartans told it around the campfire. When I work on a story I choose a point of view. My intent was misunderstood because in many ways ‘300’ was a deliberate propaganda piece. ![]()
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