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| | Reevaluating history: Battle of Thermopylae - Objectivism Online Forum |
 | | I don't think any defender of freedom can look at Thermopylae and not be impressed (to some extent anyway) at their dedication to living a life free from oppression from a foreign tyrant. | | | Combined with the other Greeks, the force at Thermopylae was supposedly 2000-3000 in all. | | | It's funny that the view that Thermopylae was a pointless battle is a view that has only recently become widespread. |
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http://forum.objectivismonline.net/index.php?showtopic=864
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| | Sparta Pages: Thermopylae, the Alamo of Greece |
| | The Delphic oracle had earlier hinted that Sparta might be saved at the cost of a king, and contemporary Greeks had no trouble believing that Leonidas, carrying this prophecy in the back of his mind, was prepared to offer his life as the price of his city's salvation. | | | The Spartans would remain at Thermopylae and hold it to the last. | | | Only the Theban prisoners and a presumed handful of the Spartans' servants had survived the carnage. |
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http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~sparta/topics/essays/academic/alamo.htm
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| | Livius Picture Archive: the battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE) |
| | There is something to be said for this, but it is also possible that the Spartans were just too late to evacuate a hopeless position and died fighting. | | | Probably, this has been written with the benefit of hindsight: the Thebans later collaborated with the invader. | | | This is just one of the many tracks in the hinterland of Thermopylae. |
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http://www.livius.org/a/battlefields/thermopylae/thermopylae.html
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| | Battle of Thermopylae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Had this battle been fought on an open field, rather than a narrow pass, the smaller Greek army could have been surrounded and defeated with ease, despite the quality of the Greek infantry. | | | Plutarch mentions, in his Sayings of Spartan Women, that after encouraging her husband before his departure for the battle field, Gorgo, the wife of Leonidas I asked him what she should do when he had left. | | | Knowing the likely outcome of the battle, Leonidas selected his men on one simple criterion: he took only men who had fathered sons that were old enough to take over the family responsibilities of their fathers. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae
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| | Béquignon, Y |
| | "Thermopylae revisited, and some topographical notes on Marathon and Plataiai" [Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean in Ancient History and Prehistory = Studies to F. Schachermeyer, New York, 1977] 89-105. | | | Bury, J.B. "The Campaign of Artemisium and Thermopylae" ABSA 2 (1895) 83-104. | | | Thermopylae - An Historical and Archaeological Guide Athens, 1951. |
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http://playlab.uconn.edu/pylaeref.htm
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| | nV News Forums - The Battle of Thermopylae |
| | Even though the Spartans were terrifiic warring people, I doubt this claim even given the circumstances of the battle. | | | All accounts are from Greek Historians, whom, regardless of what others would argue, are kwown to distort the truth in their favor a bit. | | | The Athenians continued to build their ships in order to take control of the seas again. |
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http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/printthread.php?t=40594
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| | Thermopylae -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Persian king (486–465 BC), the son and successor of Darius I. He is best known for his massive invasion of Greece from across the Hellespont (480 BC), a campaign marked by the battles of Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea. | | | Spartan king whose stand against the invading Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece is one of the enduring tales of Greek heroism, invoked throughout Western history as the epitome of bravery exhibited against overwhelming odds. | | | The Greek fleet held its own against the Persians in three days of fighting but withdrew southward when news came of the defeat at Thermopylae. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9072090?tocId=9072090&query=battle
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| | To this day, historians speculate on just how different the world might have been if Xerxes had succeeded, and Greece had become part of the Persian Empire. | | | When the fighting at Thermopylae was over, Leonidas and his men lay dead, but the Spartan king had earned immortal fame for his heroism. | | | The Greeks might have succeeded in holding the narrow pass of Thermopylae had not a traitor told the Persians of a secret mountain path that allowed them to turn the pass. |
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http://pilgrimtours.com/greece/info/thermopylae.htm
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| | Besides these troops, the Locrians of Opus and the Phocians had obeyed the call of their countrymen, and sent, the former all the force they had, the latter a thousand men. | | | He had now come to Thermopylae, accompanied by the three hundred men which the law assigned him, whom he had himself chosen from among the citizens, and who were all of them fathers with sons living. | | | On his way he had taken the troops from Thebes, whose number I have already mentioned, and who were under the command of Leontiades the son of Eurymachus. |
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http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Herother.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae |
| | This is the story of Xeones, the only survivor of 300 Spartan warriors ordered to delay for as long as possible the million-strong invading army of King Xerxes of Persia. | | | This book is a brilliant depiction of what the dreams and aspirations of those Spartans might have been. | | | Unfortunately this sort of courage didn't work so well with warfare at a distance (missiles and machine guns etc) - perhaps it was the story of Thermopylae that inspired the officers who ordered their men out of the trenches. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553812165
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| | Summary of and commentary on Herodotus' Histories, book 7 |
| | The Thebans who fought at Thermopylae probably belonged to the latter group, and cannot be blamed for the fact that Thebes surrendered to Xerxes after they had been captured. | | | Already in Antiquity, people criticized Herodotus for this error; the Greek author Plutarch of Chaeronea even wrote an angry treatise on the subject, called Herodotus' malice. | | | The Thessalians are now without support, and as we have already seen, surrender to Xerxes when he demands earth and water (above). |
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http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodotus/logos7_22.html
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| | A Commentary on Xerxes |
| | They decide to build it up in order to defend themselves from any frontal assault. | | | However the Malians who live near Thermopylae are hostile to the Phocians and they have also offered earth and water to Persia. | | | Herodotus's account of the battle, like all his battle narrative, is open to distortion because the memory of eye witnesses is suspect - because they will only remember what happened to them in a busy and confused battle scene. |
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http://www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk/xerxes.htm
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| | Thermopylae, South Africa Surf Forecast, Tides, Surfcam and Sea Conditions |
| | We welcome your comments and suggestions, and if you would like a preview of the type of service we offer, check out snow-forecast.com and weather-forecast.com | | | At the moment, we display the current current weather observations / forecast for Thermopylae, tide data, sea temperature and a growing list of Surfcams. | | | We are continuously developing this site with the aim of providing the most comprehensive online resource for surfers. |
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| | Thermopylae History |
| | Some sources have it that the Thermopylae came to her end in 1906 when she was torpedoed at sea by units of the Portuguese Navy. | | | Though the Thermopylae was regarded as the fastest clipper ship to have sailed the oceans of the world, her memory lives on in the hearts and minds of only an informed few. | | | Be that as it may, though second to none, the Thermopylae came to a lonely and undignified end to sink beneath the waves which she so proudly battled for more than thirty years. |
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http://www.gardenroute.org.za/shipyard/ships/thermopylae/ther_history.htm
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| | The Battle of Themopylae, 191 BC |
| | Afterward he went into Boeotia and awaited the advance of the Romans at Thermopylae; for he believed, in view of his small numbers, that the natural advantages of the place would be of assistance to him. | | | The Battle of Themopylae, 191 BC The Battle of Thermopylae, 191 BC At the beginning of the Syrian War, Antiochus made a defensive stand at the pass of Thermopylae, fortified the natural defenses. | | | But in order to avoid repeating the experience of the Greeks who had been arrayed there against the Persian he sent a division of the Aetolians up to the summit of the mountains to keep guard there. |
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http://www.barca.fsnet.co.uk/thermopylae-191bc.htm
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| | Go Tell The Spartans |
| | Yet Thermopylae is no ordinary place -- or rather, was no ordinary place. | | | The approximately seventy-one hundred Greeks at Thermopylae were made up of about four thousand Peloponnesians from nearly a dozen different states as well as about thirty-one hundred soldiers from central Greece. | | | At Thermopylae a king and three hundred of his soldiers set the standard for battle to the death against overwhelming odds. |
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http://www.historynet.com/mhq/bldspartans
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| | Battle of Thermopylae |
| | This fight would be known as the Battle of Salamis. | | | The battle at Thermopylae ended with every last Spartan fighting until they were killed. | | | Xerxes was incredulous that they would take a stand against his immense army. |
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http://www.ancientmesopotamia.net/id28.html
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| | The Spartans and Thermopylae |
| | Even before the Battle of Thermopylae, Xerxes had already won over large parts of Greece (Thessaly, Árgos, and most of central Greece) through both a diplomatic initiative and the threat of force. | | | But true to their orders and loyal to their king, the Spartan stand at the pass is one of the bravest accounts of men in battle. | | | Only after an act of treason by a Greek, were the Persians able to surround and destroy the Spartans. |
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http://www.dandoman.com/Spartans_thermopylae.html
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| | Thermopylae |
| | She was named after the Greek 'Battle of Thermopylae' where King Leonidas of Sparta and his warriors saw off the Persian Hordes in about 480BC.... | | | 'Thermopylae' created her first record (still not beaten by a sailing ship) on her maiden voyage from Gravesend, England to Melbourne, Australia. | | | She sailed the voyage land to land in a record 60 days, her skipper; Captain Kemball. |
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http://www.red-rooster.co.uk/ships/thermop.htm
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| | Greece |
| | "Thermopylae, the Alamo of Greece" from the "Sparta" web site. |
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http://employees.csbsju.edu/MCOOK/Courses/History/HIST_130/greece.htm
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| | The Greeks - The Persians Invade - Thermopylae |
| | Xerxes had spent years planning his invasion of Greece. | | | In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae, not far from the Greek fleet that was anchored off the nearby coast at Artemisium. | | | It was a suicide mission, designed to detain the Persians just long enough for the rest of the Greek allies to gather their forces. |
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http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/background/20_p1.html
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| | Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Thermopylae |
| | Thermopylae is particularly remembered for her rivalry with Cutty Sark. | | | She was 25 days to Anjer, 49 days to Cape Agulhas, and off the Lizard on September 30, completing her remarkable passage two days later after only 91 days out. | | | Terms and Conditions of Use, Privacy Statement, and Trademark Information |
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| | Thermopylae - Greece Travel |
| | Sparta had not come to Thermopylae in force, it is true; but her king was there with three hundred of her best men. | | | It was audacious in the Athenians to fight the battle of Marathon without them, and they did so only because the Spartans did not come at their call. | | | It may be taken as a well-known fact that the Spercheios has since the time of Herodotus made so large an alluvial deposit around its mouth that, if he himself should return to earth, he would hardly recognize the spot which he has described so minutely. |
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http://www.oldandsold.com/articles13/travel-266.shtml
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| | Today, the hillock (there is also some dispute as to which of two hillocks the Greeks actually made their final stand) is not very high. | | | It is unclear how many Greek troops initially fought at Thermopylae (again estimates range from 5,200-6, 000), but we do know that those who eventually defended the pass to the end comprised of what remained of the original 300 Spartans (and their helots) under Leonidas and a contingent of seven hundred Thespians. | | | It helped to stiffen Greek resolve against the invader and served to rally many Greek city states which, until that point, were wavering as to which side to support. |
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http://playlab.uconn.edu/pylae.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Thermopylae: The Battle for the West |
| | This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are. | | | "Thermopylae" is not as scholarly as A.R. Burn's "Persian and the Greeks," but it is imminently more readable. | | | Though this book is titled improperly, it is still an engaging reference for the entire war, and would serve as a good introduction for the student who is learning about the Greco-Persian War for the first time. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306805316?v=glance
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| | Greece and Alexander |
| | http://www.wcslc.edu/pers_pages/m-markow/212/3/demara.html -Demaratus on the Spartan conception of freedom and Thermopylae. |
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http://www.journeyintohistory.com/time/world/greeceAlexander.htm
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| | [5] Thermopylae is the battle in which Xerces defeated the Spartans.) | | | Thermopylae is a wrapper around Sparta that allows it to be used as a drop-in replacement for Xerces. | | | Sparta was originally written in Hewlett-Packard Labs to support a project creating an infrastructure for building agile applications that distribute themselves throughout the global Internet and aggregate ensembles of local appliances. |
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| | Battle of Thermopylae |
| | "Thermopylae had her messenger of defeat-the Alamo had none."
| | | Thermopylae was at a narrow stretch of land only 50 feet wide from the cliffs to the sea. | | | The narrow pass would not be wide enough for the massive Persian army to out flank them, and it would prevent the use of the Persian Calvary. |
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| | The topography of Thermopylae |
| | This is not as strange as it seems, however, because any traveler visiting Thermopylae was moving from Thessaly and Malis in the north to Doris and Locris in the south (or the other way round). | | | Behind this village is a wide space [near a sulfurous spring] in which is set up a temple dedicated to [the goddess] Demeter of the Amphictyons, and there are seats for the Amphictyonic councilors and there is a temple dedicated to Amphictyon himself. | | | In his narrative about the battle, Herodotus tells more about the topography of Thermopylae (pictures of the battlefield itself and the mountain path that was used to attack the Greeks in the rear can be found here). |
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http://www.livius.org/a/battlefields/thermopylae/thermopylae-text.html
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| | The Spirit of Thermopylae |
| | Leonidas and his army of 7,000 were ordered back south to Athens before they were encircled and it became too late to leave; but, although it was even acceptable in the martial Spartan tradition to abandon a post that was undefendable, he refused. | | | Like those at Thermopylae, there remain a few who remain faithful to accomplishment; however, like the 300 Spartans, and the 700 Thespians who fought to the death, does the fight for the West die with them? | | | In the morning, after a short meeting of the war council, it was decided that Thermopylae was an undefendable outpost. |
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http://library.flawlesslogic.com/spartan.htm
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| | channel4.com - science - speed machines - text only version |
| | This site discusses the ambitions of the two men and the epic race of their respective ships, the Cutty Sark and the Thermopylae. | | | An historical account of the race between the Cutty Sark and the Thermopylae. | | | Describes many of the tall ship races, including the one between the Thermopylae and the Cutty Sark. |
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http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/speedmachines/greatclippers_findoutmore_t.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Thermopylae |
| | Thermopylae, Battle of, battle fought between the Greeks and the Persians at Thermopylae, in northern Greece, in 480 bc. | | | Thermopylae (Greek, “Hot Gates”), pass in ancient Greece, southeast of Lamiá, between Mount Oeta and the Malian Gulf and leading from Thessaly... | | | Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers--quickly search thousands of articles from magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, and Smithsonian. |
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| | Thermopylae - C.P. Cavafy |
| | Ephialtis was the Greek traitor who guided a section of the Medes (i.e the Persian Army) over a mountain path in order to attack the rear of the Greek forces which were protecting the pass of Thermopylae under the Spartan king Leonidas (480 B.C.). |
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http://ithaca.rice.edu/kz/Misc/Thermopylae.html
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| | King Leonidas and The 300 Spartans of Thermopylae |
| | This blog will focus on King Leonidas & the 300 Spartans who valiantly fought until the death defending the Pass of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. Their heroism along with the other Greek warriors who defended the 'Hot Gates' has been glorified in the movie 'The 300 Spartans' and will be revisited with Frank Miller's '300'. | | | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. | | | Conversely, our group at http://groups.google.com/group/300spartanwarriors will respectfully answer any questions that are presented to us at the above-mentioned forum by the members of the G.B. website relative to Frank Miller’s ‘300’, King Leonidas, the 300 Spartans and the Battle of Thermopylae. |
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http://300spartanwarriors.blogspot.com
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| | Thermopylae |
| | Thermopylae also was used to carry wool from Australia, later she was used in the trans-Pacific trade to Victoria B.C. Sorry, your browser doesn't support Java(tm). | | | Foochow, China is on the Min river and ships were towed to the mouth before they sailed on their own. | | | The Thermopylae was a very famous "extreme" Tea Clipper built in 1868 in Great Britain. |
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| | The Battle of Thermopylae Pass |
| | The Battle of Thermopylae has been used as an analogy for many things including heroism despite impossible odds, selflessness, and duty to one's homeland. | | | They had to take the direct route which was through a pass called Thermopylae. | | | The Persians' army was large and not able to readily feed itself so it did not have the ability to make large maneuvers which would take time and potentially starve them. |
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| | Search for "thermopylae" provided by Poetry Connection |
| | Majestic Clipper Ships - Thermopylae and Cutty Sark, 1872 (signed) | | | The term "thermopylae" has been searched for 24 times before on Poetry Connection. | | | Never betraying what is right, consistent and just in all they do but showing pity also, and compassion; generous when they're rich, and when they're poor, still generous in... |
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| | Thermopylae |
| | The Spartan king Leonidas, in charge of 7000 Greeks, was ordered to cut the advance of the Persian army at Thermopylae (in central Greece), a narrow strip of land between the sea and impassable mountains. | | | The Persian army, 250,000 strong, attacked twice and was forced to retreat, due to the fact that the passage was so narrow that they could not fully deploy their force. | | | In 480 BC, Xerxes led the Persians (Medes) and invaded Greece. |
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| | the atrium greek history battle of thermopylae: 480 b.c. |
| | The Sparta Pages has (have?) an essay by William Golding of Lord of the Flies fame, who wrote a personal essay arising from his own visit to Thermopylae. | | | There is a fair bit of quality information about the battle at Thermopylae. | | | The actual date of the battle is uncertain, but is obviously tied to the Spartan celebration of Karnea (held sometime in the Spartan month of Karnea -- roughly August/September, which delayed the arrival of reinforcements for Leonidas. |
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http://www.atrium-media.com/bibliotheca/greekhistory/thermopylae.html
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| | BrothersJudd.com - Review of Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae |
| | The middle section of the book, which I found interesting but slow, deals with his life in Sparta and the training techniques used by the Spartans to create what was one of the most formidable fighting forces the world has ever seen. | | | Eventually he becomes the squire of one of the 300 knights who are chosen for Thermopylae. | | | The Spartan King Leonidas lead 300 Knights ans some 700 Thespaian allies to the narrow pass at Thermopylae, in order to hold the Persians back as long as possible. |
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http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/376
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