Imperio estético: griegos frente a persas según 300 de Frank Miller

Abstract

This contribution aims to perform an iconographical and aesthetic analysis of the image of thePersian empire as it is shown on the cinematographical adaptation of the graphic novel by FrankMiller, “300” (Z. Snyder, 2007). The point of departure of the analysis is the assumption that thedeformed image projected in the film obeys more to the poetic turn of picturing the Persian realityfrom the point of view of the Spartans, offering nothing more than a new version of the strangenessof otherness, which stresses sensationalism and tries to present some kind of imperial image of theAchaemenid King and his people