as stated “Herodotus was known as the World’s first Historian.”(Livius.org). Herodotus was biased towards the Greeks so when he chose to write about the Greco-Persian war it made the Greeks seem like the good guys and the Persians seem like the villains. Due to the fact that there was not a lot of historical documents other civilizations in the future had no choice but to also be biased towards the Greeks and against the Persians. The Thermopylae war in the movie 300 is a perfect example
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each side; the Greek forces and the Persian forces. Greek accounts say the Persians numbered over a million. Herodotus even exclaims the Persian forces reached up to 2.6 million strong. We know today that this would hardly have been possible and that Herodotus had probably greatly exaggerated in his writings to glorify the Greeks. Another misconception also is the Spartan force of 300 elite hoplite soldiers fought on their own against the 100‚000-150‚000 or so Persian troops. This is of course
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Thermopylae The battle at Thermopylae was a long awaited battle‚ after both powers Athens and Persia submitted to a 10 year inter-war period from 490BC to 480BC‚ in order to carefully prepare a second invasion from the Persian’s‚ following the humiliating defeat of Darius at marathon. Xerxes actions were motivated by revenge and the urge to burn Athens to the ground‚ just like Sardis‚ however he knew it would not be easy. The Persians spent multiple years recruiting new infantry from all areas
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Themistocles naval policy it had significant outcomes to each battle in a certain way. Themistocles’s naval policy was the foundation for future superiority for the Athenians‚ for these reasons the Athenians depended on the sea to be a trading power. As Herodotus stats: “Athens’ future lay on the sea as a trading power”. As a result‚ this lead Themistocles to plan the improvement of the harbours in Athens for the trireme building programs‚ which will enable the Greeks to have a larger Navy consisting of triremes
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Persian armies and the overall intent and outcome of both battles. The primary reason that the Greeks were able to claim victory over the Persians during their invasion of Greece was primarily due to the Spartans and more importantly the actions of the 300 Spartans and their king leonidas at the battle of Thermopylae‚ as it was here at the Pass of Thermopylae that the Spartans and other members of Greek society held off the Persian army outnumbered and outmatched for almost five days straight. This ultimately
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and when s/he was writing and from where s/he was getting his/her sources. After looking at Homers work‚ we look to other sources to validate what is being said. Herodotus confirms some of Homers ideas but also reveals some discrepancies. Whilst Thucydides also confirms some ideas and brings into play others. However for both Herodotus and Thucydides‚ reliability must be questioned. Homer’s The Iliad presents many key details on the Trojan War. The Iliad tells of the Trojan War‚ saying that there
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Every male Spartan had to pass through the Spartan education system - the agoge. This began at the age of seven and was completed at by the age of thirty when the Spartan would become a full Spartiate and receive the right to vote. The fact that a Spartan spent so much of his life in the agoge meant that there was a long time for the state imposed system to force him to have the same views. Plutarch tells us that the particularly intelligent young men in the agoge were chosen to be part of the
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in the outcome of the Battle of Marathon in that it was his initiative that produced the success of the Greeks. “Miltiades’ words prevailed‚ and by the vote of Callimachus (the polemarch‚ or commander in chief)…the decision to fight was made” – Herodotus. In response‚ the Athenians marched out from Athens with a force of approximately 11‚000 Greek hoplites (10‚000 Athenian and 1‚000 Plataean) to meet the
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Expansion of the Persian Empire may very well have overtaken the less organized and unallied Greek city-states and become the prominent world force‚ directing the course of history. While Herodotus’ accounts have provided many of the details that may have otherwise been lost‚ gaining him the title of “Father of History‚” Aristagoras could‚ by some accounts‚ be given the title “Father of Western Civilization” (Holland 154). While that may be
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relection on society at the time. even in antiquity there are multiply stories as to why the trojan war happen. Herodotus is in the mid 5th century 450 inventor of modern history. (per socretes) He is writing about his findings without bias and he wants orepor so that it’s not lost. (persians =barbarians) Herodotus puts his name on his work. Thucydides (written after herodotus) died about writting ab out the peloponnesian war (two greek cities) Home wrote about greeks and trojans. spartan
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