02-09-2012, 06:55 AM
Quote:I agree with you Mark. There is an excellent, deep and lengthy story to be told there if all aspects are considered:
(a) Leonidas I's personal story - man/commander/diplomat etc.
(b) Other Spartans accompanying him - Dienekes etc.
© Demophilos and the Thespians and other Greeks - leaders and men (8000 after all)
(d) Xerxes' story - man/tyrant/motivations
(e) Hydarnes, Tigranes and other Persians etc.
(f) Demaratos' story - exiled king/traitor etc.
(g) Events leading up to the battle
(h) Significance of the Phokian Wall
(i) Three days in the pass
(j) Artemision - happening concurrently
(k) Ephilates' story
(l) The outflanking march and the Phokians
(m) Final all-out clash
(n) The Thebans' story
(o) Death of Leonidas
(p) Kolonos Hill
(q) The aftermath inc. mention of Salamis, Plataia, Mykale etc.
Spot on Howard, though I would think the battle at Plataia should be included (perhaps not just a mention?), and as you said, at least a mention of Mykale (too many do not realize the scale and importance of the battle at Mykale, though I have done my small part to bring attention to the battle, I wrote an article about it for a blog a few years ago and started a thread on that very topic here back in 2010)
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad