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Why were the Spartan soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves at Thermopylae?

April 26, 2017Sacrifice soldiers Spartan thermopylae willing

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Why were the Spartan soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves at Thermopylae?

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That’s a pretty neat way of doing it, but remember that the Phocian contingent of the Greeks were posted at the goatpath and when the Persians came round they tried to divert the Persians. However the Persians ignored them so the Phocians didn’t see much action at all.