Posted on 02/05/2025 10:47:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv
...Led by Demophilus of Thespiae, 700 Thespians reached Thermopylae, where there is now a monument in their memory next to a statue dedicated to the Spartans. For the Thespians, the price of their defiance at Hot Gates would be a severe one – the destruction of their city no less – but they fought again at Platea...
Politically, Thespiae was aligned with the Boeotian League, an alliance of Boeotian city states led by Thebes, which acted as the league's permanent president. The Boeotians used the same coins and measures to facilitate easier trade and were obliged to aid each other in war, but the league was not an entirely centralized political body, and the individual city states mostly maintained their sovereignty...
According to sources like Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, the Greek force numbered anywhere between about 5,200 and 7,700 men, to which the Thespians under the command of Demophilus contributed 700 hoplites...
On the third day of the battle, the Persians discovered a mountain pass that enabled them to circumvent the narrow road and attack the Greeks from behind. When the Greek force learned of this, the majority of them withdrew to fight another day.
However, the 300 Spartans led by Leonidas, the 700 Thespians commanded by Demophilus, and a force of 400 Thebans remained at Thermopylae where they made a final stand...
In 1997, the Greek government unveiled a monument to the oft-forgotten Thespians at Thermopylae, next to a monument commemorating the Spartan sacrifice there.
(Excerpt) Read more at greekreporter.com ...
The two are not mutually exclusive. Hollywood is full of lesbian thespians.
700 lesbians?
The image that popped into my brain on reading the title would’ve been worthy of a Monty Python skit.
prescient thespians!
I am not a warrior, but i play one on TV
LOL.
They did improv to distract the enemy.
:^)
I am one of those who still remembers the Thespians, Thebans and some others who backed up Leonidas and his 300.
I always liked REAL HISTORY and not movie history.
Worse, it was a movie based on a comic book.
?
The 300 SPARTANS from 1962 is far better. Not based on a comic book.
The Persians did not discover the mountian Passage. They were led by a traitor
"Spians? Who are the Spians?"
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