in posts above i've said the same thing. i don't understand why the 300 shows a different picture.

1) greeks being white white (aren't they just as mediterranean as say...syrian, lebanese, or palestinian? = "brown") and

2) no representation of the caucasian, aryan(iran = aryan in farsi), dynamic army you mention? not arguing that the persian army didn't have black people in it....arguing that it had other people too that are absent in the film, because non white others easier to vilify.

this is all an aside to the characterization of persian aggression (homosexual, 'mystic', tyranical) with no similar analysis of greek homoerotic, oracle/many gods, violence.