2500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae

[UWS]

As we all know, the Battle of Thermopylae took place in 480 B.C. and it saw the valiant courage of 300 Spartan soldiers led by their king Leonidas who sacrificed their lives to protect Greece against the Persian army led by Xerxes.

According to several historians it took place in August of that year (though we're not quite sure) and in the scene in which Leonidas consults the Ephors to discuss the strategy against the Persian in the movie 300, one of them told him, quote, « This is August, Leonidas », though Roman Emperor Augustus, whom the month was named in honor of him, was not yet born at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfGIeNALguE

Anyway, we're approaching the 2500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae (480 + 2020 = 2500), that marked forever the history of Greece and Ancient History.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Three hundred Spartiates, that is. There were also over a thousand Boatians (about two thirds of which were from Thespiae, one third from Thebes) and a large but uncertain number from the Lacedaemonian lower classes, perhaps as many as a thousand. It is important to get these things right.

I would also add that while there is little doubt that what the Spartans and their allies did was very brave, it was also a military disaster and a complete strategic fiasco, one that placed the wider Greek alliance in even graver peril than previously.

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

An appropriate time when we can commemorate the brave liberators who sought to bring an end to barbaric Greek slavery and cut down three hundred slave-owning Spartiate elites