Ancient skeletons bury a popular right-wing talking point

[Flaminpig0]

its definitely an acquired taste but visually its stunning

Someone wrote an alternative speech for Xerxes in 300 that they felt would  improve the film https://www.counterpunch.org/2007/04/01/300-vs-iran-and-herodotus/ it is a little gem

"I am now embarking on the conquest of Greece, a backward region populated by primitive polytheists who worship capricious amoral deities and practice absurd religious rites. But my ancestors and I, having already conquered many Ionian Greeks, respect Greek philosophers and indeed have many of them in our employ. We have established a multi-ethnic empire. In that empire, Greeks fill important roles from the Mediterranean to India.

"These Spartans confronting us at Thermopylae are cruel men who annually–for sport!– make war on the defenseless helots that live around them. They have nothing to tell us Persians—or the world in general—about 'freedom.'!"

[Imperial Dave]

Not bad