Truth Seeker
Adventurer
No societies are perfect...and yes, those were very rough times. Which exactly, still exist in one variant form or other, today. Mankind's history is mired with it.
Felon said:You had me up until you started going on about freedom and defying tyranny and oppression. Reality check: the Spartans themselves weren't exactly heroic champions of personal liberties, except for those liberties you could take by force. The movie does not shy away from demonstrating that, particularly early on with the scenes of unfit babies being discarded onto a trash heap and seven-year-old kids being confiscated as government property. True, they were the underdogs in this film, so we root for them naturally, but there plenty of times when the Spartans were the big bullies. And proud of it.
I'm not one for judging ancient societies by modern values--rather, I'm saying we ought not to do exactly that.