 "San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)")
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At the gates of gore: GRUESOME TALE OF SPARTAN-PERSIAN BATTLE MATCHES DARK GRAPHIC NOVEL ON WHICH IT'S BASED.
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Byline: Bruce Newman
Mar. 9--If looks could kill, the Spartan warriors who spend most of "300" flexing their six-pack abs at the invading Persian army would have surely won the Battle of Thermopylae. In defense of Greece, the 300 Spartans chose to go into battle wearing little more than leathery G-strings, apparently believing that only in combat could they show the world what they were really made of.
That seems to be the historical underpinning -- the underpants, if you will -- upon which rests the heroic tale of Leonidas. (The heroic tail of Gerard Butler, having gone ...
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