02-11-2012, 07:56 PM
Quote: How are people NOT going to root for the Spartans at Thermopylae??? You have a million Persians attacking 300 Spartans who are thumbing ther noses at them?Because the Spartans, although clearly heroes facing death etc., may not their favorite Greek state? It's not as easy as that - sometimes the loser is indeed not the one you root for.
Quote:People like underdogs. If you saw a fight between this one guy, holding his own against a whole gang of thugs and he's making them remember they were in a fight, who would YOU root for? The gang of thugs who out number this guy maybe 30-1 or that one guy?Thermopylae may not be such a clear case, But I'm surely rooting for the invader Alexander who defeats the Persians (the underdogs in this campaign no matter how you turn it). Likewise Caesar - sorry but I'm not rooting for the Celts, who were slaughtered in the end by the big nully Romans.
Quote: This was not some punitive raid either, you don't bring an army of a million men on a punitive raid.I really hope you do not take that number seriously. No ancient armies of a million men existed. Logistics would make that impossible. A hundred thousand would alreay be an immense army.
Quote:People love glorious and heroic last stands, history is full of them. Nobody ever roots for the big bullies who slaughter them in the end.Not always Tom. I think that the end of WWII was quite satisfactory. :wink:
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
