Where is Fact? What is the Real History? "300" Isn't a very very very Lrage historical Lie?!?

Question

the powerful persian troops in the 300 movie killed by the spartans like Gnat , isn't just a Silly kidding by director of the movie , in true history each persian army = 5 other army , they were very huge and real Versant in combat , but in this comic movie the crazy director shows that 300 Of spartans killed almost 1000000 of persian troops , isn't a joke???????

each aware and wise person konws that the persians are the original aryan on the world and the cradle and symbol of the civilization with the Good-looking and beautiful surface , everybody who knows alittle about the persepolis , and the Intaglios and ,..etc in this place and same places around the world , can certifies this matter and fact of persian empire around the world But director of the 300 movie , likes a comic film shows that the great persian imperator look likes an african ??????!!!!!!

Answer 1

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the Persians for three days in one of history's most famous last stands. A small force led by King Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I could pass. After three days of battle, a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks by revealing a mountain path that led behind the Greek lines. Dismissing the rest of the army, King Leonidas stayed behind with 300 Spartans and 700 Thespian volunteers. The Persians succeeded in taking the pass but sustained heavy losses, extremely disproportionate to those of the Greeks. The fierce resistance of the Spartan-led army offered Athens the invaluable time to prepare for a decisive naval battle that would come to determine the outcome of the war. The subsequent Greek victory at the Battle of Salamis left much of the Persian Empire's navy destroyed and Xerxes I was forced to retreat back to Asia, leaving his army in Greece under Mardonius, who was to meet the Greeks in battle one last time. The Spartans assembled at full strength and led a pan-Greek army that defeated the Persians decisively at the Battle of Plataea, ending the Greco-Persian War and with it the expansion of the Persian Empire into Europe.

The performance of the defenders at the battle of Thermopylae is often used as an example of the advantages of training, equipment, and good use of terrain to maximize an army's potential,and has become a symbol of courage against overwhelming odds. The sacrifice of the Spartans and the Thespians has captured the minds of many throughout the ages and has given birth to many cultural references as a result.

Primary sources
Xerxes I, king of Persia, had been preparing for years to continue the Greco-Persian Wars started by his father Darius. In 481 BC, after four years of preparation, the Persian army and navy arrived in Asia Minor.[54] A bridge of ships had been made at Abydos. This allowed the land forces to cross the Hellespont. Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who wrote the first history of this war, gave the size of Xerxes's army as follows:

Units Numbers
Fleet crew 517,610
Infantry 1,700,000
Cavalry 80,000
Arabs and Libyans 20,000
Greek troops allied with Persians 324,000
Total 2,641,610

This is the account for the land armies present at Thermopylae. Regarding the total number of forces Xerxes I assembled to invade Greece (land army, fleet crew, etc.), this number is nearly doubled in order to account for support troops and thus Herodotus reports that the total Persian force numbered 5,283,220 men,a figure which is regarded as erroneous by modern estimations. The poet Simonides, who was a near-contemporary, talks of four million. Ctesias of Cnidus, Artaxerxes II of Persia's personal physician, wrote a history of Persia according to Persian sources one century later that unfortunately has not survived, and gives 800,000 as the total number of the original army that met in Doriskos, Thrace, after crossing the Hellespont.

Size of the Greek army
According to Herodotus, the Greek army included the following forces:

Units Numbers
Spartans 300
Mantineans 500
Tegeans 500
Arcadian Orchomenos 120
Other Arcadians 1,000
Corinthians 400
Phlians 200
Mycenaeans 80
Thespians 700
Thebans 400
Phocians 1,000
Opuntian Locrians 13
Total 5,200+


I hope that answers at least some of your questions...

Answer 2

1 it’s a movie and FICTION, get over it
2 historical evidence shows the Greeks held the pass for 3 days against a much larger Persian force.
3 the movie was about the Spartans not the 4000 other Greeks there, again it is fiction.
4 No where does it claim the movie is factual
5 Xerxes looked brown not black in the movie, your making racist assumptions.
6 it is your opinion that the Persians had a "good-looking and beautiful" appearance, since we have no ancient Persians alive today it is hard to say exactly what they looked like. Please remember modern Persians are also part Arab, Indian, Greek and Asian so they do not necessarily look like their ancient ancestors.
7 the movie never claims the spartans killed a million men.

If you want facts look up the history. A Spartan led Greek force held the pass at thermopolye for 3 days while a smaller Greek fleet held off a larger Persian fleet at the same time preventing the Persians from outflanking the ground forces.

On the third day the Persians moved up a second pass, the Greek guarding the pass retreated and the Persians got behind the Greek army.

Of the 4000 Greeks only the remaining 300 Spartans and their Thespian allies stayed to fight. The Persians, rather than engaging the Spartans who had slaughtered them up to this point shot them down with arrows, killing king Leonidas. The Spartans fought and died to protect the fallen king.

In the aftermath Xerxes burned Athens to the ground. However after a year the Persians had made little additional leeway. The Greeks reformed and attacked the remaining Persian army; Xerxes fled back to Persia and left his army to be slaughtered.

Best thing to remeber it is FICTION! it is not reality, it is not an honest representaion of historical fact.

Please don't get upset because it does not fit in to your world view. it is not propoganda, it is not iran bashing, it is a piece of entertainment fluff and thats all it was ment to be.

you should worry more about real life and less on a FICTONAL movie.

Answer 3

You do know that the the movie's source was a graphic novel and not a textbook, right? It was not a historical representation, it was an artistic adaptation. If you wanted something historically accurate, you should have just stayed home and watched the History Chanel. If you wanted to say something bad about the movie, you should have criticized its dead airlessness, or how watching 300 was like watching somebody else play a video game, nothing more.

Answer 4

I think the movie was a joke with both Persians and Spartans ( Greeks ). Yes, I agree, there is no place for political correctness in such films - if You have to have 5% of black people in every institution in USA, in Greek history - You don`t (no disrespect for black people, but it`s like making a movie on Malcolm X and having Jet Li playing the role).
After this, I wish Hollywood would stop messing with Greek myths and history (first Alexander and Troy, now this mess), and stop educate people on subjects they no nothing of.
As for the battle, it was 300 hundred men prepared to sacrifice themselves for their families - very Aryan-like.

Answer 5

the spartan king had 6300 troops behind him the killed 20,000 in 2 days with only 300 men Sparta's mot elite and than the were surrounded and killed the third they also had a fleet of Greek ships but some persain ships were destroyed my best advice is check when its gonna be on the history channel

Answer 6

If you want to read a non-fiction account written after research into the sources by a proper historian, try Tom Holland's 'Persian Fire'

Answer 7

Yes indeed was a real battle, this history channel series is an award winning documentary on it, with tons of details and explanation of the events of the Battle Of Thermopylae.

The Battle Of Thermopylae 1: History Channel http://infoplanetonline.com/Joomla/content/view/190/1/
The Battle Of Thermopylae 2: History Channel http://infoplanetonline.com/Joomla/content/view/191/1/
The Battle Of Thermopylae 3: History Channel http://infoplanetonline.com/Joomla/content/view/192/1/

Answer 8

*shrug* :\