Posts Tagged ‘speedbump’

Thermopylae A Speedbump for the Persian War Machine

If there is a single event that made Sparta ’s military legend a seminal moment when the ‘Bronze Lie’ was forged, it is the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, fought 10 years after  Marathon. Nearly everything committed to popular memory about this battle is wrong, including the notion that it was its own battle […]

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