"Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World"

[Anonymous]

Hippies[/b]

So that's why they all had long hair! Funny they weren't advocating peace and love, man. ( Or were they Hippeis?)

Assumptive question or not - Collapsing two questions into one or not, the title of this thread questions whether Thermopylae was a battle that affected the course of History and the view expressed by Jona is that Leonidas got his men butchered through incompetence, rather than heroism. He looks at the facts, and the periods for which we cannnot be sure of the evidence, and chooses to come down on the side of prosaic military incompetence.

Like Stefanos, I wonder at the modern mindset which prefers to doubt heroism.