Slate Magazine: A Movie Only a Spartan Could Love

Slate Magazine: A Movie Only a Spartan Could Love- If 300, the new battle epic based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, had been made in Germany in the mid-1930s, it would be studied today alongside The Eternal Jew as a textbook example of how race-baiting fantasy and nationalist myth can serve as an incitement to total war. By Dana Stevens.