The iconic scene in both "300" (2006) and "The 300 Spartans" (1962) where Persian arrows ‘blot out the sun’ is directly inspired by a famous historical event and quote attributed to the Battle of Thermopylae. According to the ancient historian Herodotus, when warned that the Persian archers were so numerous their arrows would block out the sun, a Spartan soldier named Dienekes remarked that they would then fight in the shade. Also, Frank Miller was inspired by the 1962 film when creating his gra