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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 210018, member: 4626&quot;]Well get the impression the coins seen were not so much strictly historic, but <i>stylized</i> history, as pretty much the whole film is.&nbsp; (The coins looked a lot more Greek than Persian to me, but the probably wanted them easily identified as depicted Xerxes, or at least depicting how Xerxes looks in the film, to make the obvious connection that the senator was bribed by Xerxes to convice the Senate to deny Leonidas reinforcements.)&nbsp; The film itself is fairly close to Herodotus&#039; account of the Battle of Thermopylae, allowing for exaggeration and dramtic license (Herodotus&#039; account itself was probably a bit exagerated already!)&nbsp; Events most certainly did NOT happen anywhere close to the way they were depicted, but it gives you a sense of the magnitude of the events, if that makes any sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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