Apart from being the title of a great (read ‘stupendously entertaining’) new film, that is the number of queries Mr. Daniel Lazar claims to receive each week in his form letter response to my own query.
It was really a very polite rejection, though.
More on the movie: don’t see it for historical accuracy; don’t see it for political insight; see it for it’s beautiful violence, its grin-inducing one-liners.
Persian Messenger: ‘Our arrows will blot out the sun.’
Spartan Soldier: ‘Then we shall fight in the shade.’
That is almost word for word from Herodotus. Except the reply was “Then we shall have our battle in the shade.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus
Shows what I know.
There are plenty of inaccuracies, though, like the lack of armor.