Cinema’s Most Badass Classical Heroes

There’s a reason all those Classical Greek and Roman statues don’t have any arms, and it’s got nothing to do with time’s wear and tear. Limbs are an all-too-rare commodity in that world of swords, sandals, putative democracy and punitive violence. And, if you can’t tell from the thunderous sound of heaving man-jugs rumbling towards you in 3D, the 300 pre-sequel is slashing into cinemas this week to heave more hacked-off hands at your 3D glasses.

But with 300: Rise Of An Empire’s double-bladed Boadicea-of-the-boats Artemisia – played with lip-smacking relish by Eva Green – sailing away with the whole movie, we rate which of the Antiquity’s greatest badasses deserve to be celebrated in marble.

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