Title: Certainly not art.
Product review: Someone bought this book for me because of my fascination with Spartan culture. I've always thought of the Spartans as little more than animals, personally, and think that out of all of Greece they seemed the furthest from being human in any real way. Pressfield practically worships these guys and it's obvious that your reading a book by someone who wants very badly to leave an impression on you, like a child telling you their favorite story. It's interesting in places, and the research is solid, but the story is forced and quite obviously not great art. I would only recomend this to either historical fiction buffs or people obsessed with this particular battle. If you want bad entertainment like this then go read 300 by Frank Miller, it's a comic version and not nearly this pretentious. If you want great art, look in literature.
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