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Three (Comic Book)

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Three (Comic Book)	comment	Three is a graphic novel by Kieron Gillen and Ryan Kelly, which began as a deliberate Spiritual Antithesis to the glorification of ancient Sparta in 300 but then became more complex in its approach. It tells the story of three helots (the serf class in Sparta), Klaros, Damar, and Terpander, who are pursued by 300 Spartiates after killing a group of Spartiates who massacred their community.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Three (Comic Book) / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: The reason Terpander sacrificed himself. He realized that their story was ending and wanted a more heroic ending than simply being the one who started all their trouble.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_19661850	type	Just the Introduction to the Opposites
Three (Comic Book) / int_19661850	comment	Just the Introduction to the Opposites: A major part of the later section of the comic focuses on, essentially, an inverted Thermopylae. It gets particularly clear in #5, which opens with Klaros making a doomed last stand against three hundred Spartans and using exactly the same methods that the Spartans used in Thermopylae—that is to say, guarding a narrow chokepoint and forcing the more vulnerable enemy to come to him.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
Three (Comic Book) / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: The novel begins with a dramatisation of the Krypteia, the annual massacre of the strongest helots by the Spartiates as a demonstration and reinforcement of their power. It is also revealed that this happened to the helots who fought most effectively in the Theban War.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Three (Comic Book) / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Kleomenes has Klaros killed by having his men drop a huge boulder on him from the top of the gully. His fellow Spartans call it a dishonorable way to kill a man, but Kleomenes retorts that such notions of honor will doom them in the long run.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
Three (Comic Book) / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: Terpander acts effeminate and wimpy, especially in comparison to the more grizzled Klaros, but boasts in the beginning about how his tongue has "performed" before many high-class women. In Greece at the time the story is set, performing oral sex on a woman was seen as more effeminate than homosexuality.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Three (Comic Book) / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Klaros's one-man 300 act at the entrance to the gully.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_3d897748	type	Do Not Go Gentle
Three (Comic Book) / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle: Everyone. Deliberately, in the end the Three live the Spartan ideal more than the Spartiates attacking them.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Three (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Klaros and Terpander are both killed by Kleomenes and his men, who return scot-free to Spartan society to continue its brutal and oppressive culture. But Damar survives and escapes to Messene, where she gives birth to Klaros' twin sons, names them after him and Terpander, and raises them in a free, peaceful life from then on.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
Three (Comic Book) / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: Damar ends up with twins by Klaros, and names them after him and Terpander.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Three (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Nestos considers himself this, as he pursues the Three alone after being condemned as a coward for running away from them at their initial rebellion. Also Klaros, for his role in an atrocity during the Messenian war.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Three (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: When Terpander makes a drunken joke about a group of Spartan soldiers who were killed in a Helot uprising, the Ephor responds by ordering his men to kill every Helot in the room.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_519f108a	type	Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Three (Comic Book) / int_519f108a	comment	Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Klaros is very good at this. In the notes, Gillen tries to justify it by pointing out that in classical Greece, both the spear and the sword were primarily hand-held stabbing weapons, and that the sword was actually more practical to throw.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Three (Comic Book) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Terpander makes a suicidal attack on Nestos to give Klaros the chance to kill him. He explicitly invokes We Have Reserves on himself.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Three (Comic Book) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Of a sort. Throughout the series, what little description from the Spartans seems to paint Agesilaos, who's currently in Egypt as a mercenary, as the ideal Spartan king who would have run Sparta much better than Kleomenes. In the epilogue, however, it's revealed that Agesilaos is now a broken and weak old man, who died before he even returned from Egypt.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_77e45bb5	type	Why Did You Make Me Hit You?
Three (Comic Book) / int_77e45bb5	comment	Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: Eurytos sparks all the trouble at the beginning by forcing the helots to get drunk to demonstrate the evils of drinking to his followers, and then having all the helots massacred when Terpander drunkenly mouths off to him about the catastrophe at Messene.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_812dd60	type	Costume Evolution
Three (Comic Book) / int_812dd60	comment	Costume Evolution: Spartan hoplite armor comes in two types - the older full-faced (Corinthian) helmet with a bronze muscle cuirass, and the newer open-faced conical (pilos) helmet with a laminated linen cuirass (linothorax). The older armor was the type Leonidas wore. The 300 Spartiates are equipped with the newer type, while Nestos steals a set of the older type which belonged to his grandfather.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
Three (Comic Book) / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: Sparta is in the process of developing into this at the time of the novel, seven years after the disastrous Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, which helps explain why there is such an extreme reaction to the Three's revolt.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_9230c618	type	Hypocrisy Nod
Three (Comic Book) / int_9230c618	comment	Hypocrisy Nod: Kleomenes acknowledges that killing Klaros with a huge boulder dropped from above was dishonorable, but he also points out that with Sparta being in dire straits, they no longer have the luxury to entertain unrealistic notions of honor - which are already being blatantly violated in any case, the prime example being Agesilaos' effective pardon of all the survivors of the Battle of Leuctra, even though by Spartan law they should have been denounced as 'Tremblers' and rendered into outcasts.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Three (Comic Book) / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Supposedly Sparta's attitude to helots who prove themselves to be a bit too good at fighting in war. In the notes Gillen points out that the actual evidence for this is ambiguous, but suspects that the helots themselves probably believed it.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Three (Comic Book) / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: The Three, who make the trained Spartans pay for every inch when they are cornered.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
Three (Comic Book) / int_96d2ce42	comment	In Vino Veritas: The plot kicks off when an Ephor and his escort force a group of helots to drink wine. When they don't like what the drunken Terpander has to say...
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Three (Comic Book) / int_9823f7c	type	ProudWarriorRace
Three (Comic Book) / int_9823f7c	comment	Proud Warrior Race: A deliberate deconstruction, in that it doesn't merely condemn the grotesque abuse of the helots that underpinned classical Spartan society, but also demonstrates how the impracticality and rigidity of the martial ideal led to Sparta's military and political decline in the fourth century BC.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Three (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Damar's speech early on to the two guys about how just surviving is the best rebellion.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_a27da813	type	Stern Chase
Three (Comic Book) / int_a27da813	comment	Stern Chase: The basic plot of the novel.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_a8357dc2	type	No Woman's Land
Three (Comic Book) / int_a8357dc2	comment	No Woman's Land: Double-subverted. The novel points out that despite its grotesquely brutal caste system, Sparta was one of the most egalitarian classical Greek states in its treatment of women—at least, the rich and upper-class women. Helot women, who made up the majority of the female population, were treated as badly as female slaves were everywhere else.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Three (Comic Book) / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: Klaros fakes lameness at the beginning to avoid drawing dangerous attention to himself for his fighting skills and also as atonement for the atrocity he committed.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Three (Comic Book) / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: Damar is the only one of the Three to get away alive.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Three (Comic Book) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Nestos's attempt to hunt down the helots personally ends up giving Klaros the military armour and weapons he needs to battle the main group of Spartiates, and provides the extra corpse that allows Damar to get away at the end.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Three (Comic Book) / int_b1346878	comment	Near the end of the story, Terpander directly references the "tonight we dine in hell" line, taunting the 300 Spartans hunting them by saying that helots, who have been living in hell all their lives, would show them the way.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Three (Comic Book) / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: When Nestos returns home after he's denounced as a 'Trembler' (an outcast of Spartan society who showed cowardice) for failing to kill the Helots who killed his father, his widowed mother declares that her son never returned home and considers the man standing in front of her lower than her racing horses.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_c8e375d3	type	Lover and Beloved
Three (Comic Book) / int_c8e375d3	comment	Lover and Beloved: Kleomenes and Tyrtaios talk about how they had this kind of homosexual relationship in their backstory, fitting with Ancient Greek societal mores.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_ca5d7b66	type	Pre-Climax Climax
Three (Comic Book) / int_ca5d7b66	comment	Pre-Climax Climax: Klaros and Damar sleep together on their last night in the gully before the Spartiates attack. She survives and bears twin boys that she names after the other two.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
Three (Comic Book) / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: To 300. Its initial conception was to expose the actual brutality and injustice of ancient Spartan culture, and point out how self-destructive its martial ideals were in the end. In Gillen's own telling, he came home one night drunk and started reading 300, before: Near the end of the story, Terpander directly references the "tonight we dine in hell" line, taunting the 300 Spartans hunting them by saying that helots, who have been living in hell all their lives, would show them the way.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Three (Comic Book) / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Spartan society in general, and a central theme of the novel. King Kleomenes comments that the tale of the two hounds taught to young Spartan boys, in which breeding is said to be as important as training, is different from the one taught to him as a child, in which training was emphasised as being more important than breeding. The altered tale reflects Sparta's military and political decline and how the education system tries to compensate by emphasising Spartan blood. The Ephors disparage Kleomenes and his late father Kleombrotus, the Spartan king who commanded the Spartan-Peloponnesian army at Leuctra and fell in the battle, while praising Agesilaos, who essentially used a loophole in Spartan law in order to prevent the numerous survivors of the battle from being branded outcasts, which would have had a disastrous effect on Spartan manpower. Kleomenes calls out the Ephors on their hypocrisy and also points out the mistake that Agesilaos made in waging punishment wars against Thebes for 30 years, thereby inadvertently strengthening Thebes, leading to the disaster at Leuctra. Nestos also points out his parents' hypocrisy in having only one son in order to avoid having to split their large estate, even though parents in Sparta were specifically expected to have many sons in order for there to be sufficient manpower for the army.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Three (Comic Book) / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Damar survives by hiding and letting the Spartiates assume that Nestos's corpse is that of one of the three helots, realising that they don't know that one of the escapees was a woman.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Three (Comic Book) / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Terpander starts the entire plot by bragging to Arimnestos and his men about how a helot uprising slaughtered Arimnestos' namesake and his unit, which Nestos reacts to about as well as you'd expect.
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Three (Comic Book) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Three (Comic Book) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Kieron Gillen did a lot of research into Spartan society to get the details right according to the most recent academic literature on the topic. The notes even contain an extended discussion between Gillen and a professor of history who specializes in that particular period.
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