city states. Was the most symbolic struggles in history. The battle began Iran 480 B.C. All of the defenders of sparta were killed because they were outnumber. The Greeks met the persian army in small road between Thessaly and Central Greece. The spartan king Leonidas
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betrayed the Greeks by revealing a mountain path that led behind the Greek lines. Dismissing the rest of the army‚ King Leonidas stayed behind with 300 Spartans and 700 Thespian volunteers (Number vary). The Persians succeeded in taking the pass but sustained heavy losses‚ extremely disproportionate to
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Sparta: Uncultured Discipline The Spartans were the most formidable warriors in all of history. They dedicated their entire lives to warfare. They were taught to endure cold‚ hunger‚ pain‚ their courage on the battlefield was second to none. The Spartan code was to fight hard‚ follow orders without question and to die rather then retreat or surrender. To achieve all this‚ Sparta sacrificed everything; the arts‚ culture‚ and other things that make life worth while. I believe the price was to high
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historical city-states (polis) to have ever existed was Athens and Sparta and that are always taken an example for their completely different governing systems. The difference between two city states were flagrant. Today we will dive deeper into the Spartans and Athenians life and try to figure out how Athens and Sparta obtain the right to participate in public life. We will also discuss about who held the public office and what rules governed the selection of the public office holders. Finally we will
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abandoned outside the walls of the city. Some of Plato’s ideas had already been put into action in Sparta‚ around 431 BC. In line with the concept of ‘Eunomia’‚ weak male infants were left to die on slopes of Mt. Taygetus. (“The true story…”) “The Spartans practiced an
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I. In Greece the polis of Sparta was the number one military authority for the people and for the time period. There was nothing that the Spartans could not do when it came to war. From the time that Spartan men were born‚ they were evaluated for their future services to the Spartan society. Each baby was sent to have the ten‚ ten‚ one test done on them as explained in the novel‚ The Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. This test was to check and make sure that there were no deformities. If there
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disunity of the Greek states. The Greeks had chosen to defend a narrow pass‚ or gap‚ between the mountains of central Greece and the sea‚ called Thermopylae. This pass was part of the route into Greece from the north. King Leonidas of Sparta rounded up 300 of Sparta’s most elite soldiers with the help of 7000 Greek soldiers from other states marched for an attempt to block the only road by which the massive Persian army could pass‚ while the small army knew they would face a large army which would end
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Because of the recent movie‚ 300‚ most people are aware of the epic battle that occurred at Thermopylai were 300 odd Spartans supposedly held off an army of over one million led by Xerxes I. Now‚ there were many errors in the movie (the number of men on both sides being the chiefest of them). But it still leaves many people asking how a force so drastically outnumbered was able to hold a force nearly twenty times their number. The answer lies in the difference in their equipment‚ tactics and their
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and then it jumps into the present day goings-ons. Mr. Pressfield wrote The Warrior Ethos as an addition‚ almost an explanation to An Epic Novel of: The Battle of Thermopylae: Gate of Fire. He uses The Warrior Ethos as an explanation as to why the Spartans were so socially oriented around the warriors aspect of life‚ so unlike the Greeks‚ who thought creating beautiful artwork and architecture was the main focal point in life. The narration of this book isn’t really about any one character‚ it’s more
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states as well. 300 Spartans once killed over 20‚000 Athens men in a number of days. They were so immune to pain because they started this brutal training when they turned 7. There was once a little boy who stole a baby fox to eat because he was so hungry‚ then one of the elders came over to him so he hid it under his clothes and while they talked away it slowly was eating him alive until he died. Because of how great there military is leads to there type of lifestyle. Life for Spartans was pretty
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