The story of 300 depicts the Persians in a very negative way lol. They don’t seem at all Zoroastrian in the movie (multiple idols, and weird rituals, no likenes

The story of 300 depicts the Persians in a very negative way lol. They don’t seem at all Zoroastrian in the movie (multiple idols, and weird rituals, no likeness of anything Zoroastrian shows up). It’s a great movie tho! In reality those Persians were Zoroastrian, at least in name. I say “in name” because the Battle of Thermopylae (i.e. 300) would have been 500-2000 years after the creation of the Zoroastrian religion[0], I’m sure more than a little was altered/forgotten. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire [0] We don’t have much recorded history that dates back that far and it’s a matter of academic debate when exactly the religion started.