[prognostigaator]

^

[Spktyr]

WTF is this????

Hey, Persians: If you show up with 2.7 MILLION troops and the intent to exterminate a civilization and LOSE, don’t expect to be remembered fondly.

[secretagent]

Darn. Just when you think you know whom to hate.

[G8 Diplomat]

Great article. The Spartans were wild savages, the Persians in general were not, at least not to that degree. They wouldn’t even be Muslim had the Arabs not conquered them.

Although, it’s kind of ironic that Zoroastranism, invented by the Iranians, should give rise to Islam, which was forced on Iran and holds it captive today.

[ovrtaxt]

Cyrus the Great the founder of the Persian Empire is mentioned 23 times in the Bible and is the only figure dubbed the 'anointed'

This is false.

[ovrtaxt]

Zoroastranism a faith which led to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Also false.

[ovrtaxt]

Persians are the first (Iran literally translates to Land of the Aryans) Indo-European race the Spartans are not.

The first? no.

[Clemenza]

Pre-Islamic Persia was, in many ways, a much more civilized place than Sparta.

Unfortunately, there will be RETARDS on this thread who will start mouthing off about A-rabs (Iranians are PERSIANS) and how this is "Islamonazi" propaganda.

BTW: Grease, er, Greece is appropriately named.

LONG LIVE CYRUS THE GREAT!!!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

This sad little lizard told me that he was a
brontosaurus on his mother’s side.
I did not laugh people who boast of ancestry
often have little else to sustain them.
Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness
in a world in which happiness is always in short
supply.

LAZARUS LONG

[Taggart_D]

The Persians only one - Ahura Mazda. Zoroastranism a faith which led to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The rise of the Persian empire was way after the time of Abraham.....where do people dig up this garbage.

[LiteKeeper]

Zoroastranism a faith which led to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

WRONG!!!!!

[kb2614]

Zoroastranism a faith which led to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Uh, no. Judaism pre-dates Zoroastranism by quite a bit. Christianity has strong connections to Judaism, though it did come after Zoroastranism. I think Islam was spawned by a bad acid trip. ;-)

[BruceysMom]

“accommodate the Hebrews’ return to their Palestinean homeland.”
The land that we now refer to as Israel, was not called Palestine until the Roman occupation, and that was LONG after the Jews returned from the Babylonian captivity. It seems that there’s a serious deficit of facts in this article.

[Caipirabob]

In today's "modern media" the Spartans will more likely be remembered as the inventors of the "Lazuh" than for anything within an accurate historical context.

An interesting debate. I think the question with regard to the overall impact of Sparta's contribution via resistance to the Persian conquest of Greece is "did they truly protect and preserve the birth of democracy" or is that just a romantic allusion attributed to them because of the courage of the 300 at Thermopylae?

SPARTA!!!!