300 out next year - WOW !

It is about the battle of Thermopylae (a narrow pass between the Mountains and Ocean in NE coast of Greece)...

basically an army of 300 Spartans and I think 2000 Greek soldiers held off the entire Persian army of 100's of thousands ... i think 200,000 is an amount I've heard somewhere....
Basically the 300 spartans completely DOMINATE the Persians, they destroy the Persian Immortals (crack bodyguards of the Persian King) and fight off until the very last man falls...

They fought their last stand on a hill, standing back to back in a circle... still demolishing every Persian who came their way....

Finally the Persians had to use their archers to kill off the Spartans... truly amazing story.
 
Seft said:
1080P version, for those of us with decent screens :p
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Lets try this baby out ;)
Don't have apple, so the first link would play!

EDIT: blimey that looks sexy ;)
It jumped a few times, but that was probably due to my graphics card :o
 
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oops how did I manage to post those 2 threads in the same post??? ARGH now it just looks like I wiki'd it lol...

bugger it.
 
cool

the main star was that scottish nutter jackie in the film 'shooters' -great actor

just bought troy after watching this trailer, damn!
 
Docaroo said:
It is about the battle of Thermopylae (a narrow pass between the Mountains and Ocean in NE coast of Greece)...

basically an army of 300 Spartans and I think 2000 Greek soldiers held off the entire Persian army of 100's of thousands ... i think 200,000 is an amount I've heard somewhere....
Basically the 300 spartans completely DOMINATE the Persians, they destroy the Persian Immortals (crack bodyguards of the Persian King) and fight off until the very last man falls...

They fought their last stand on a hill, standing back to back in a circle... still demolishing every Persian who came their way....

Finally the Persians had to use their archers to kill off the Spartans... truly amazing story.
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These not a true figure on the size of the Persian army but most historians agree that it was at least 200K and no more then 1.7m. The Greek army consisted of 300 spartens and 4900 Greek Soldiers. Although the 4900 soldiers were dismissed from the battle by the King (700 Thespians refused to leave and stood with the Spartans) when he realised that death was inevitable. The Spartens fought on their own and managed to kill between 20k to 100k Persians.

These some really good books about the battle. Paul Cartledges is probably the best.
 
Why the distinction between Greeks and Spartans? The Spartans were Hellenes...you have to say "other Greeks" :)

Herodotus claims 1M men, but then its Herodotus. Probably 200-400k fighting troups, the rest support. And yeah, we sure kicked butt that day :cool:
 
man i've watched this trailer about 20 times now, really looking forward to it

-infact i've just bought a book about it and the frank miller thing, usually i dont care too much about things in the past, but this rocks
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Saw it last night at the end of Mr jonathan Wossssss and :eek: :eek: :eek:

Jsut downloaded the 1080 version and jesus christ !
 
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moody said:
The Spartens fought on their own and managed to kill between 20k to 100k Persians.
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The great numbers of persian dead were sustained before the immortals flanked the greeks, and the spartans then fought with the 700 Thespians - at that point they probably killed no where near the numbers that were dying before the retreat of the main greek force.
 
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Why the distinction between Greeks and Spartans? The Spartans were Hellenes...you have to say "other Greeks" :)
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The Spartans actually saw themselves as Lacedemonians as opposed to Hellenes.

Herodotus claims 1M men, but then its Herodotus. Probably 200-400k fighting troups, the rest support. And yeah, we sure kicked butt that day :cool:
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Surely did - I had great times arguing with the arab kids that went to my uni about who was better out of the greeks and persians. He didnt stand a chance! ;)
 
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The Spartans actually saw themselves as Lacedemonians as opposed to Hellenes.
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No, but Laconia is just the region in which Sparta was - it's not a separate ethnicity. That's like saying the Macedonians or Atheneans or Thebans weren't Hellenic. All these people were Hellenic, but in absence of outside pressure, Hellenic Identity went out the window and it was polis vs. polis. Also, names changed frequently in history; e.g. Homer constantly refers to Athenians (or Greeks in general? Can't remember) as Acheans, the Romans knew us both as Graikoi and Danaans...so the names changed all the time, but when there was outside pressure, we did pull ourselves together :)

Mind you, the Spartans/Lacedemonians were always difficult as they thought themselves as much superior to everyone else, which is why they didn't surrender to Phillip II or Alexander and thus did not participate in the great conquest of Persia.

Incidentally, the Spartans and Macedonians were both direct descendents of the Dorians :) Food for thought...

Surely did - I had great times arguing with the arab kids that went to my uni about who was better out of the greeks and persians. He didnt stand a chance! ;)
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Nice one :cool:
 
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