steepholm

Well, I did make provision for that in my post, I think, when I said that variants that were too far from the original were easier to edit out (as with Darcy's dip). I haven't seen Troy (yet) - but when I was writing my digression about the different ways small companies of Welsh and English soldiers set about the task of being Doomed, my mind naturally skipped to Thermopylae, and those Spartans combing each other's hair and putting it in lovely braids. (Clearly more Welsh than English, but really not quite either.) What's the gen on 300 from this point of view? Does it spoil Herodotus for ever after? Or had The English Patient already done that? Do YD or Becca have a view? I really must see some more films, I guess: my points of reference are far too limited...