[HoneyBadger]

I think 300 has a lot to say about how we view ourselves, and that it says it with irony, and satire.

You'll note one part where the Spartans jeer the "boy-loving" Athenians, and yet they, as a society, were even more guilty than the Athenians were. If you take the whole movie like that, yes in a sense it's nationalist propaganda, but on another level, it questions that nationalism-even going so far as to make the one surviving member of the '300' lose an eye. With only one eye, he symbolizes only one outlook, one side to the story. And taken symbolically as a cyclops (which is valid, since these are Greeks), he becomes larger than life, a drunkard, and an 'eater of men'.

I realize it's somewhat of a stretch to suggest that's what's meant, but who's to say it's not what Frank Miller had in mind?