01-29-2009, 04:44 PM
Phalanx 300 wrote:
Quote:Or the most probable reason in my view: leaving their kings body might be the most dishonourable thing for a Hippeis to do......uuu..mm..mm the "300" were most unlikely to have been the conventional Hippeis - see discussion elsewhere.....
Though we will never know for sure.
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff