Proponents even pointed to the display on 300 West as a less-than-ideal outcome of the city’s existing policy. It’s unclear, though, where any suggested overhaul of the billboard rules stands now.

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at ...

300 is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley. The movie is directed by Snyder from a screenplay he co-wrote with Kurt Johnstad and Michael B. Gordon.