CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Persians, Spartan Constitution, List Of Kings Of Sparta

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

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Lecture 9 september 24, 2014 delphi and the spartans and athenians vs. persians. Either your great and glorious city must be wasted by persian men. Or if not that then the bound of lacedaemon must mourn a dead king, from heracles" line. Basically, she said sparta will fall, or leonidas 1 (the one who went through the agiad or soldier upbringing) would die. They block, the small passage where the persians have to funnel in a couple at a time. This offsets the numeric advantage, and they were able to resist the persian army with their phalanx. Meanwhile, the athenian navy is blocking the persian navy. The greeks had 7000 soldiers some of which were spartans, and there were apparently anywhere from 70,000 (a 10 to 1 advantage) to 300,000. The persian"s see how the outnumbered the spartans were. When the persians gave the spartans a chance to surrender, the spartans replied: molwn labe, meaning come and get our weapons.