This link was sent via a Greek MySpace friend.....An interview with Aris Makris who trained the Spartans in 300...a real Spartan enthusiast shows the female interviewer how it was done....by the Spartans of course...!
ArisMakris
Nice tattoos...!
Quote:Quote:where she learns a little bit about what it meant to bear the lambda at the battle of Thermopylae.
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I assumed they meant bearing the Greek letter Lambda
[size=150:uppfrrid]Λ[/size] on the aspis...that is the typical Spartan image...!
(even if they used Mora or personal symbols at Thermopylae)
Quote:Arthes:1s7g6xhm Wrote:(even if they used Mora or personal symbols at Thermopylae)
Exactly 
But the average person doesn't know that...I didn't until a year or two ago !
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Is it just me or did he have a couple of gladii on the wall? :lol:
Quote:Is it just me or did he have a couple of gladii on the wall? :lol:
I hadn't noticed...but yes, they look like gladii along with the kopis...! One could be a xiphos...which was the ancestor of the Gladius.... :?