The Battle of Thermopylae: A discussion with Prof. Cartledge

[@Yuuzhanvon]

This is an amazing historian

[@jessesquer4204]

I love his lectures and presentations 😊

[@panagiotisbalaktaris7825]

Great discussion on an epos! Ευχαριστούμε!

[@michaelmeyer6503]

Great video! I would love to study under this professor.

[@Dancing77Kat]

Thank you. I am studying Herodotus and this was a nice addition to my studies.

[@tulkas399]

Wonderful! ❤️

[@Ulfhednar1993]

I always wondered when people said that there is small information about Spartans. I m historian myself and I read and studied every single historical document that mentions Sparta, and there is quite a lot, 1. HERODOTUS tells quiet a lot about their government system 2. Thucydides which fought against them speaks very highly about hes enemies and gives us also very valuable informations about their strengths and power. About how they treated helots that one time they massacred them and many other things 3. XENOPHON is the most valuable, yeah he was pro Spartan and laconophile but still hes writings give so much information about Spartans and their way of life. Constitution of lacedaemonians, helenica, biography of Agesilaus, Anabasis. He wrote many thing and there is a lot info about Lacedaemonians Last one is Plutarch but I never took hes documents with trust because he wrote after 4 century's later and he used all the historians information ( that I mentioned above) and expanded and made them much much more dramatic and full with legends and myths, the way plutarch describes Sparta is like it was some utopian place. So in conclusion there is a lot information actually and if u can dig dipper and do some detective work u will find more from those documents, for example: we know from thucydides that Argos had 1000 elite special unite during peloponesian war at battle of mantinea, but if we go back and read about battle of Sepeia u will realise why argos started raising professional elite unit wich was financed by government. Sl this is one example

[@99IronDuke]

Interesting discussion. Needless to say the modern liberal-globalist politics at the end is decidedly weak.

[@tulkas399]

Liberalism is a fighting creed and will always take out the fascist and neo-reactionary trash. HAILS VICTORY, HAILS to the whole human family. 🤘🏻

[@martinbonfil5545]

What are you objecting to pray? I presume you carry a torch for facists and racists. Well the true legacy of Thermopylae is surely not the Nazis and their betrayal of the western tradition.

[@dinovassilakos6868]

Liberalism and the enlightenment go hand in hand. It is when we realized we all matter. So gtfoh with that right wing crap.