This new version of ancient Hellenic history was more a beautified and idealized construct of a precious past by the nostalgic European historians searching for an alternate utopian universe to fall back on. It echoed the biblical references in Coldplay’s famous hit song Viva la Vida (meaning: Live the Life, 2008, another title: Death and all his Friends) about a king’s castle standing on “pillars of salt, pillars of sands”. With the battle at Thermopylae (meaning Hot Gates) in 480 BCE Persian history became Hellenic (Greek) history, and when the (religious) war-weary Europeans pulling out of the crusading Middle Ages picked the ancient Hellenes and Romans as the pillars of the Western Civilization, Greek history became world history. Movie.ology: 300, and then we dance "the Persian"
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