Point of View

The graphic novel is told from the difficult first-person, plural, point of view. The first sentence begins "We march..." and the last sentence ends "...we charge." The narrator is unnamed, but reliable, and knows the interior thoughts and motivations of all characters. Identifying an individual as the narrator is problematic because most of the events narrated leave no survivor other than Dilios who is spoken of often as a character; he is clearly not the narrator. Although the graphic novel's timeline spans a period of forty-one years, the narrator is not necessarily there for more than one year. This is because the experiences of c. 520 BC are related in a flashback sequence by Dilios and then later contemplated in a series of flashback sequences by Leonidas. In any event, it is probably not significant that the narrator cannot be individually identified—the narrator is probably...