Ancient Mesopotamia, Near East and Greater Iran: Are the numbers of the 300 really 300?

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Are the numbers of the 300 really 300?

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Topic: Are the numbers of the 300 really 300?

Posted By: Deano
Subject: Are the numbers of the 300 really 300?
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2007 at 17:09

Historians have suggested the full force of Greeks may have been as high as 8000 to begin with or that the 1500 only stayed put on the third day after being trapped by the Immortals. The Spartans may have only sent 300, not because of the Olympics or Carneia, but because they didn�t wish to defend so far north, although it does seem unusual they would have sent a King if so.I think the true spartans may of been 400 or so but this is also plausabel.You also have to take in count that they even state int he myth ''we embarked with as many as 4,000 of our greek brothers against the demons(Persians).''

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Posted By: Kerimoglu
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2007 at 17:52

Dear Deano, you are new in this forum, so before posting, you better needed to search related topics of that. We have already hardly debated on it and learned a lot, so if u just go to the archive I am sure u can easily find pretty enough information on that.

Thanks

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Posted By: Darius of Parsa
Date Posted: 24-Oct-2007 at 01:00

There were about 7,500 Greeks and about 25,000 to 30,000 Persians present at the battle of Thermopylae

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Posted By: Balaam
Date Posted: 25-Oct-2007 at 10:28

Originally posted by Deano

The Spartans may have only sent 300, not because of the Olympics or Carneia, but because they didn�t wish to defend so far north, although it does seem unusual they would have sent a King if so.

The Spartans went because of their alliance but didn't retreat along with the bulk of the Athenian and other Greeks forces is because it was against their law. But other than the 300 Spartans which included King Leonidas (mind you the Spartan king was alot different to what other nations considered there kings) there was also others who stayed where the Spartans were and also up defending the pass in the mountains that the Persians eventually got wind of.

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