What made Sparta dare to chalenge Persia with only 300 soldiers?
By jeffrynov
@jeffrynov (130)
Indonesia
3 responses
@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
21 Jun 10
That was just a fictitious movie based on realistic types of people of before. Didn't mean that it actually happened. Further, if you should be able to research, you'll see that Spartans were nomads, they didn't have 'communities' where they settled and created homes in. Therefore, the story of 300 was far from reality.
@vastari (331)
• Ireland
21 Jun 10
Actually the movie was based on a comic. That comic was based on a real battle where 300 Spartans (and a few thousand other Greeks) stood up against roughly 100,000 Persians. The Spartans, however, forced the other Greeks to retreat when the Persians moved in behind them, so at the end it was just the Spartans and the Thespians who refused to retreat.
@jeffrynov (130)
• Indonesia
21 Jun 10
Cool but the story is based on true story happened a few thousand years ago not entirely fiction there is an actual history you may find on the net about the war
@vastari (331)
• Ireland
21 Jun 10
The story of 300 was a rather artistic take on what really happened. In reality while there WAS only 300 Spartans, they had far more allies with them. In the final stand after they forced their allies to retreat, the Thespians refused to leave, so there was roughly 1,000 of them left alongside the surviving Spartans.
There was no refuting that the Spartans had a strong and powerful warrior culture, and their soldiers were man for man far stronger than any Persian soldier. They also had the tactical advantage of forcing the Persians into a narrow gap where the numbers of the Persian army would actually cause the Persians problems.
The only reason the Spartans ever lost a war was because a Military culture which teaches people to fight as an army is vastly more powerful than a Warrior culture which teaches individual soldiers, which is why the Romans managed to conquer Greece in the end. The Persians were also a warrior culture, but most of the army was made of conscripts which didn't know how, nor wanted, to fight.
