Show Comments. Bragging that Silent Hill feel, image generation tool NeuralBlender can turn words into surreal but on-point images at a press of a button. Know Your Meme is an advertising supported site and we noticed that you're using an ad-blocking solution. Read Edit History. About This is Sparta! Origin The scene originates from the film directed by Zack Snyder, an American film adapted from a graphic novel of the same name by Frank Miller, a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae The film tells the story of King Leonidas and his lead of Spartans into battle against Persian King Xerxes and his army of more than one million soldiers.
Full Scene Transcript Leonidas: You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death. Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian.
Perhaps you should have done the same. Persian Messenger: This is Blasphemy! This is Madness! Leonidas: Madness? Spread Months before the release of the film, the theatrical trailer was enough to spawn spoofs and parodies of the catchphrase. Top entries this week. Notable Examples. Related Memes Sparta Remix Sparta Remix is the name given to a mash-up based on a scene from the movie The Kick The Kick is a person kicking another usually resulting in them falling a great height sometimes accompanied by the caption "This is Sparta.
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View More Editors. Add a Comment. For adolescents ready to graduate from the graphic novel to Ayn Rand, or vice-versa, the historical Leonidas would never suffice.
They require a superman. And in the interests of portentous contrasts between good and evil, 's Ephors are not only lecherous and corrupt, but also geriatric lepers. Ephialtes, who betrays the Greeks, is likewise changed from a local Malian of sound body into a Spartan outcast, a grotesquely disfigured troll who by Spartan custom should have been left exposed as an infant to die. Leonidas points out that his hunched back means Ephialtes cannot lift his shield high enough to fight in the phalanx.
This is a transparent defence of Spartan eugenics, and laughably convenient given that infanticide could as easily have been precipitated by an ill-omened birthmark. Xerxes is eight feet tall, clad chiefly in body piercings and garishly made up, but not disfigured.
No need — it is strongly implied Xerxes is homosexual which, in the moral universe of , qualifies him for special freakhood. This is ironic given that pederasty was an obligatory part of a Spartan's education.
This was a frequent target of Athenian comedy, wherein the verb "to Spartanize" meant "to bugger. This touches on 's most noteworthy abuse of history: the Persians are turned into monsters, but the non-Spartan Greeks are simply all too human. According to Herodotus, Leonidas led an army of perhaps 7, Greeks. These Greeks took turns rotating to the front of the phalanx stationed at Thermoplyae where, fighting in disciplined hoplite fashion, they held the narrow pass for two days.
All told, some 4, Greeks perished there. In the fighting is not in the hoplite fashion, and the Spartans do all of it, except for a brief interlude in which Leonidas allows a handful of untrained Greeks to taste the action, and they make a hash of it. When it becomes apparent they are surrounded, this contingent flees. In Herodotus' time there were various accounts of what transpired, but we know hoplites from Thespiae remained, fighting beside the Spartans, they, too, dying to the last man.
No mention is made in of the fact that at the same time a vastly outnumbered fleet led by Athenians was holding off the Persians in the straits adjacent to Thermopylae, or that Athenians would soon save all of Greece by destroying the Persian fleet at Salamis.
This would wreck 's vision, in which Greek ideals are selectively embodied in their only worthy champions, the Spartans. This moral universe would have appeared as bizarre to ancient Greeks as it does to modern historians. Most Greeks would have traded their homes in Athens for hovels in Sparta about as willingly as I would trade my apartment in Toronto for a condo in Pyongyang.
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