Perfect from technical and stylistic standpoint; history it is not

Rating: 8/10 (19 April 2007)

I just saw 300 yesterday and I liked it for the visual style and perfection. I especially liked all the blood spatter and scene composition (very comic-book like).
However, history it is not. By any stretch of imagination: 1. Greeks did not build their cities with holes in the middle of the square (about 30 feet in diameter and several thousand feet deep) that have no apparent purpose except throwing the enemy messengers into it...
2. Greeks did not build their temples on the top of a spire with 80 degree angle slopes...
3. Ephors were not mystics, but retired spartan officers 60+ yo, who had an advisory role to the rulers 4. Sparta had no governing council, nor was it a democracy 5. Xerxes was not 9 feet tall...
6. Spartans did not wage war naked in leather thongs...
And so on, and so forth...