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History Channel Documentaries - Rise and Fall of the Spartans: Tides of War

Seizoen: 2002 - Aflevering: 12 / 158 - Eerst uitgezonden: 26 december 2002 - Episode ID: 894254

Author Steven Pressfield, (Gates of Fire) reflects on the significance of the Battle of Thermopylae, where a force led by 300 Spartan warriors stalled the advance of a hundred-thousand-plus strong Persian army for nearly a week. Scholars like Barry S. Strauss of Cornell University and Yale's Donald Kagan explore the factors that drove the Peloponnesian city-state to strive for martial excellence. And ancient accounts explain how Sparta's warriors were trained and detail their prowess in battle.