Friends of '300' in Academia?

My colleague a. guess has an excellent post regarding the more disturbing elements of the new movie about the Battle of Thermopylae. It is worth adding that some of the most avid students of Sparta could also be found among the supporters of the Iraq war. I am thinking of Donald Kagan, who is considered the world's finest scholar on the Pelopponesian wars, and Victor Davis Hanson, author of Carnage and Culture. Both of these scholars are members of the once very trendy neo-conservative movement which has been losing members at an alarming rate recently. It would be intriguing to see whether either Kagan or Hanson approve of '300.'