 Ephraim Lytle , assistant professor of Hellenistic History at the University of Toronto , said 300 selectively idealizes Spartan society in a " problematic and disturbing " fashion , as well as portraying the " hundred nations of the Persians " as monsters and non @-@ Spartan Greeks as weak . He suggests that the film 's moral universe would have seemed " as bizarre to ancient Greeks as it does to modern historians " . 
