A video I made about the Spartans in the ancient time!Music by: George DalarasTitle: Tis Dikaiosinis ilie noiteAbout Sparta and the Spartans:Sparta was, above all, a militarist state, and emphasis on military fitness began virtually at birth. Shortly after birth, the mother of the child bathed it in wine to see whether the child was strong.The ordinary Spartan was a citizen-warrior, or hoplite, trained to obey and endure.Leonidas was a king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line, one of the sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta and a descendant of Heracles.In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. On the first day of the siege, when Xerxes demanded the Greeks surrender their arms, Leonidas is said to have replied Μολών Λαβέ .A small force led by King Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I could pass.Leonidas and his men repulsed the frontal attacks of the Persians for the first two days, killing roughly 20,000 of the enemy troops and losing few of their own.After three days of battle a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks, revealing a mountain path that led behind the Greek lines."Go tell the Spartans, oh stranger passing byThat here, obedient to their laws we lie.""Ω ξειν,αγγέλει Λακαιδεμονοιοις οτι τηδε κοιμεθα της κοινων ρημασι πειθωμενοι."Made by: Greece91ΖΗΤΩ Η ΕΛΛΑΣ

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