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Antiquity Noel Malcolm wonders whether a fabled battle really is such an exemplar
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Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World
BY PAUL CARTLEDGE
MACMILLAN, pounds 20, 300 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870
428 4115
'Go tell the Spartans, passer-by, / That here, obedient to their
laws, we lie.' As every schoolboy once knew, this is the poem written
by Simonides to commemorate the Three Hundred - the elite force of
Spartans who, under their king, Leonidas, confronted the Persian army
at Thermopylae in 480 BC and were wiped out almost to a man.
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; For nearly 2 500 years, Thermopylae has been a symbol of heroic resistance in the name of freedom. But was it really as simple as that? As a new film celebrates the courage of the Spartans who defied impossible odds, Paul Vallely investigates. LONDON: When boyhood's fire was in my blood I read of
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