12-02-2006, 02:26 AM
When I read the Gates of Fire, it re-awoke my interest in ancient Greece,
and my interest in Ancient warfare! It also inspired me to visit the home of my grandfather and grand mother, and to meet and find my relations.
It helped make my visit, as well as the host of history books I read as well, a truly fantastic time, both times.
I think it was as good an attempt at recreating in our minds what they went through as anyone could have put on paper!
And it did change the world, because if they hadn't stood there, who knows where they could have stopped the Persians!Rome? London?
What if...
Late edit: Yes I know they did not stop them there, but gave the rest of greece some breathing space!
and my interest in Ancient warfare! It also inspired me to visit the home of my grandfather and grand mother, and to meet and find my relations.
It helped make my visit, as well as the host of history books I read as well, a truly fantastic time, both times.
I think it was as good an attempt at recreating in our minds what they went through as anyone could have put on paper!
And it did change the world, because if they hadn't stood there, who knows where they could have stopped the Persians!Rome? London?
What if...
Late edit: Yes I know they did not stop them there, but gave the rest of greece some breathing space!
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
