04-11-2011, 04:10 PM
Quote:The battle of Antiochus III against the Romans wasn't the second battle either, since the Greeks made a stand against the Galatians at Thermopylae in 279 which should have yielded evidence as well, and there may have been others also.
Thermopylae had definately been the site of battles prior to 480bc and at least four recorded battles after 480 (353bc, 279bc, 191bc, 267 ad) Two more in modern times (1821, 1941).
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
