01-21-2020, 10:11 PM
grayfox Wrote:I guess the Spartans at Thermopylae should have just laid down their arms and gone home when the "emperor of the world" Xerxes showed up with his 1000's of armies... they surely were stupid to say Molon labe! As history has (surely!!) told us over and over!!!Completely different situation. The Spartans were heavily armed and wearing full body armor because they were part of an organized military force defending Greece against an invading foreign army. They were not lobbying their own government for a change in policy.
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grayfox Wrote:We owe the very existence of our western world in large part to their valiant defense.Indeed. Which makes it supremely ironic, because Sparta was a military dictatorship, where the individual was subjugated to the state.