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300 presumably, one of the battles the corpses were from supposedly happened the same day as the Battle of Thermopylae. If Herodotus was wrong about this battle
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
300 presumably, one of the battles the corpses were from supposedly happened the same day as the Battle of Thermopylae. If Herodotus was wrong about this battle, his records of Thermopylae become more suspect.
Kinda silly though, as "popular lore" already ignores the thousands of other Greeks at the battle, as well as the also concurrent Battle of Artemisium.
- edgyquant 5y agoDoes anyone take Herodotus as factual? He’s widely known as the father of lying in historical circles and is expected to play up a Romantic view of Greece.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoPopular lore arguably does. Also, was the capitalization of "romantic" a mistake? I've never heard Herodotus described as overly pro-Rome.
- edgyquant 5y agoYes it was a mistake
- watwut 5y agoYes they do. I have also heard claim on podcast that 300 movie is acutely historically accurate and argument was that it fits Herodus.