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Errors in Errors Section


"Anachronisms: While most of the Spartans wear the correct headgear, Leonidas and his officers wear Roman legionnaire style helmets that wouldn't be around for about 200 years. (This may have been so that they could easily be identified.)"

King Leonidas etc where helmets that only have a passing similarity to Roman Legionnairy helmets. The helmets do look more like late Greek helmets.

"Factual errors: A character is clearly heard saying that the other army "runs like a machine." How would they know how a machine runs before the term machine has been commonly used?"

They had war machine then, machines for plays, a soap displenser (put a coin in and soap would drop out) and even robots! The Greek word for 'machine' is 'makhana' (which is where the word 'machine' comes from...the fact that they use the word 'machine' is as inaccurate as them using other English words of Greek origin, the context in which they use the word is correct as well .

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The Count

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