"Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World"

[floofthegoof]

I trust the version given by Herodotus for the following reason. I'm no scholar, I don't know how to cite sources properly etc. but I could, without doing any research or interviews, write a pretty good history of what happened in World War I and World War II. If for some catastrophic reason my history is the only surviving record 2000 years on, I would be confident that the real important stuff would be accurate. I was not alive during the wars and I don't know any veterans, but the world wars were the big story of the 20th century. Simply having an interest in history, and being surrounded by a wealth of information for much of my life, I know that story with very few gaps.

I figure if I could do it, Herodotus could do it too.