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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6023342" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Wikipedia is a reliable resource for anything that isn't of immediate political interest.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There are several gross simplifactions in that. First, while it's true that the Spartan force was just 300 Spartan citizens, the Spartans were backed up by about 900 Helot servants/skirmishers and about 3000 other Greeks under Leonidas and another 2000 or so local Greeks whose cities stood in the immediate path of the Persians.</p><p></p><p>The Persians probably numbered about 200,000-300,000.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The pass overlooks the ocean. It's a drop down on one side, not a climb up. Additionally, the ocean is a bay that extends into a valley, so that on either side of the bay the hills rise steeply up with only a narrow area of flat land. It's not a glacial fjord, but that picture might give you much of the right idea. There are pictures of the modern pass, but they show about 4 times as much land as was present then. The modern bay is much smaller than the one at the time of the battle. The pass was probably only about 100 yards wide at the time. The Persian army was trying to advance along one side of the valley, between the finger of the Gulf of Malia sticking into the valley and the steep hills on the other side.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6023342, member: 4937"] Wikipedia is a reliable resource for anything that isn't of immediate political interest. There are several gross simplifactions in that. First, while it's true that the Spartan force was just 300 Spartan citizens, the Spartans were backed up by about 900 Helot servants/skirmishers and about 3000 other Greeks under Leonidas and another 2000 or so local Greeks whose cities stood in the immediate path of the Persians. The Persians probably numbered about 200,000-300,000. The pass overlooks the ocean. It's a drop down on one side, not a climb up. Additionally, the ocean is a bay that extends into a valley, so that on either side of the bay the hills rise steeply up with only a narrow area of flat land. It's not a glacial fjord, but that picture might give you much of the right idea. There are pictures of the modern pass, but they show about 4 times as much land as was present then. The modern bay is much smaller than the one at the time of the battle. The pass was probably only about 100 yards wide at the time. The Persian army was trying to advance along one side of the valley, between the finger of the Gulf of Malia sticking into the valley and the steep hills on the other side. [/QUOTE]
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