What happened to him? Did they find him? 👀

@@davidknight2104 yea Ephialtes died by someone else’s hand for a completely different reason but he was still rewarded

He has been damned and cursed ever since ,so to speak. His name is now the Greek word for "nightmare".

He lingered around for a while and was killed over a money issue by other people.

@@selfiekroos1777 You mean he still stayed after everyone knew what he did?? What an idiot.

One of the best historical documentaries of all time imo

I loved that movie. Its authenticity and quality was something that its remake "300" could never successfully replicate.

I truly missed that awesome movie. Back in the days where pure comedy at its peak. Nowadays, lacking sense of humors and stupid social justice warriors and Karens inflicting much damage to slapstick comedies.

Everyone always leaves out the penguins and it’s critical to history

Movie is movie and history is history. Study more and watch less stupid movies made for audience with a lot of fantasy

I'm really excited to have a follow up series where we look at that period of Greco-Persian history

@@InvictaHistory llleettss ggoooo

Noice bro! The Persians won the war goal in the end and that's the only reason they left.

@@InvictaHistory I look forward to it! Very little attention is paid to the “inter-war” years between the Greco-Persian Wars and the invasion of Alexander the Great.

@@InvictaHistory please do mecerenries I the persian empire indian ,greek ,scytains etx

March is probably best month for whole Mediterranean (never been to Greece so far, but in Spain & Italy several times)

The Persian savages like today's Islamic savages got what they deserved when Alexander exercised his revenge by burning Persepolis to the ground and completely destroying the Persian Empire . What comes around goes around!

yeah, I remember, when the wehrmacht advanced the Greek PM committed suicide

Pyrrhean victory should be probably called xerxesian victory🤣

Been wanting to go, does it have a vibe?

The passage of Thermopylae doesn't exist today as it has subsided. Monuments still stand though.

Not really tbh. The mountainwalls are not scalable for an army - I've learned that. But the sea has retreated so far it's basically a small plain now (so nothing like the 20m pass it was) and it smelled like the thermal baths close by (sulphur-like). If you're okay with those things, it's nice to have been 'where it all happened' :) And the small museum's pretty nice. Plus, Delphi is relatively close by, so that might be packed into a trip, perhaps.

I'm actually gonna agree. I used to think invicta was pretty dry, so I was sceptical when I clicked on the video but I have been pleasantly surprised.

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@@matimus100 haha

If we come to the bare bones and leave aside the ultra inflated tragic facts as (invented?) related by Herodotus Thermopylae was a minor skirmish in which Greeks behind a wall stopped the army at a mountain pass until they were bypassed and not longer protected by the wall were all killed. Herodotus wrote in praise of the temporarily victorious Greeks and no doubt the audiences celebrated the highly adorned facts in his writings.

The whole sensation Is that Xerxes' was a Hitler like monster that had as a goal in life to cause pain and suffering to the poor democracy lover Greeks when the truth is that the athenians had burned Sardes without any provocation nor state of war between them and Persia

Well, since the origin is not English but Greek all of the quotes are just translations. So obviously there is not THE translation that is correct. There exist a lot of different variations. In one book the author went for: "Go tell them in Sparta o passersby That here in obedience with their orders We lie" Maybe my personal favorite. I can't remember the name of the book right now. Which is a shame, becaue it was a great read. I can look it up at home.

@@wedgeantilles8575 Gated of Fire by Pressfield

The ancient Greek quote... Ω ξειν, αγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ότι τήδε κείμεθα τοις κείνων ρήμασι πειθόμενοι . The translation... O, foreign passenger, announce to the Lacedaemonians that we are buried here, obeying their commandments.

Is Zeus your God

Argos did not have much of an army by the time, years of fighting Sparta had left them wrecked.

There's a very small part of Greece that actually participated in the war if you think about it defending Greece. Middle eastern greek cities were enslaved, much of northern Greece as well, greek city states in Southern Italy also didn't give a fuck. Other greek cities in Spain were also too far to help. And then there's cities that even allied with Persia to further their goals like Thebes. Geographically wise Greeks that fought against Persia were coming quite probably from even less than 20 percent of the total greek land.

@@GothPaoki I know there were Greeks on both sides of the war, I just singled out Argos since they were allied with Platea at this time. "We're allied with the Persians and we hate Athens" is a better reason to not contribute to Thermopylae than "I said I was your buddy three years ago and while you never turned your back on me, I was too busy fighting Sparta who is now your ally"

@@alex_zetsu actually Sparta had a terrible military culture that made sure they can never take advantage of their manpower. Noy to mention that it was quite rigid. They keep using the only thing they knew {hoplite warfare} when siege craft, diplomacy, logistics or even just out right good state craft would have been much better. There is a reason they only ever managed to conqueror one third of the Peloponnese

KZfaq expert spotted!!!

It's as Intresting to non-greeks as a black Achilles movie is Intresting to you my dear Greek friend.

Its kinda goofy though.

@@ryansmith8345 Wrong. I'm not Greek.

@@ryansmith8345 idk bro. The only people I’ve ever seen bash 300 are people online who feel as if the movie insults their intelligence or something. Off the top of my head, everybody I know says they like the movie, including females. Probably cause of the hot bods and Leonidas beating Gorgos cheeks but hey. Something for everybody

@@WarHammer1989 everybody in Greece perhaps...

The Athenians deserved it

The defeat of the Athenians, had much more to do with a plague, then anything else.

@@raywhitehead730 The plague in turn had to do with Athens being besieged.

Modern day Turkey... A wholly Greek area before all of their savage genocides.

@@Moutopher And why is that?

He branded them and released them. So they would live the rest of their lives forever marked as cowards/traitors/dishonored men. They wouldn't be able to interact with anyone, without that person seeing the mark of Xerxes on their face.

Persians: What about Thebes? Alexander: They were rude to me! Slave: You killed my family! Alexander: I said I was sorry! Now shut it you rude Theban!

The burning of Athens was retribution for the burning of Sardis. But the Greeks save for Herodotus do not bother to keep a tally of their wounds they inflict, only ones that are inflicted upon themselves.

@@KTA1sVidsandFacts Talking about wounds, that Athenian wound opened by Thais should serve as a reminder that when you burn down the craddle of global civilization, the Athenian shrine and the most magnificent monuments ever erected by man, you should be on the lookout for retribution. Charring Persepolis bore testimony to that undeniable fact. Next up, the United Kingdom and the British Museum... One thing is for sure; in the end, divine justice is always served, in one way or another.

@@anastasiosliagkris576 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNqGgMyTlrqYhGg.html 1: The Ancient Greeks thought themselves descended from the Egyptian Civilization. Never mind, the fact that the first Civilization was Sumer, and there were multiple that followed in Egypt, Indus River Valley, China, and Norte Chico. 2: Athens' Golden Age when most of its monuments were constructed was during the Peloponnesian War, after they used the Delian League as a way to exact tribute from other Greeks. In matter of fact throughout most of Ancient Greek History the City-State of Miletus was the center of the Greek world until the Ionian Revolt. 3: Θαΐς and her story of being the reason 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 was burnt down is likely legend, as Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus didn't want to lay the blame on Alexander. 4: The Greeks were so heavily colonized by Rome that they forget themselves as Greeks for over a thousand years, and it wasn't until the rise of Greek Separatism in the Ottoman Empire that they started to recognize themselves as Greeks again.

@@jeremyalexander9761 You seem to be ignoring the whole Ionian Revolt, and the history that preceded it, and what came after. Alas it was a shame that Alexander's generals killed him for becoming Persianized.

Disgraceful disgusting language you're reported lover boy

They used all steroids as well back then, didn't you know?

It’s in our nature as a species unfortunately 😔. We’ll do it until we wipe ourselves out. Planet Earth will continue though as it always does.

yeah so sad those hundreds of thousand of innocent people in the middle east got killed by the united states :(

orcrainians will turn to popsicles this winter

@@isaack2084 We'll never wipe ourselves out

@@seanplays16 🤡

The Persians could have just not invaded and conquer Greek colonies…

@@90skidcultist Athens could have not supported the Ionian revolts (devils advocate, not actually pro Empire here)

@@jackalope07 Yeah, I think this history has become a little distorted into "freedom loving good people" vs "freedom hating baddies", when in reality it was more a story of tit-for-tat retaliations between different powers trying to serve their own ends.

@@jackalope07 They had every right to do so. The Persians would have came anyway. They literally wanted to conquer the world. (Respect for the devil`s advocate part)

@@90skidcultist Fast foward a couple of decades and Athens is trying the same thing, Persia wasn't a unique threat to Greek freedom

Think a similar story happened in WWI or WWII. Some verse from the bible let some British. Lemme see if that's close enough to Google. Yup! Vivian Gilbert it was .

It happened again when celts invaded ,they didnt know about the shepards secret path though so they lost so at least it worked perfectly once

@@lord_cataphract216 Ha! Stupid celts. Teach you to play Mediterranean Domination without reading the manual. The celts under Brennus II? Those celts?

Aftermath? About 280 years after??

And you do not think that the pass was forgotten by the Greeks

The Germans are the barbarians

The aftermath wasn't as immediate as that of, say, the battle of Thermopylae. Things mostly continued as usual for decades. For example, nothing much changed in Italy under Odoacer after he officially ended the Western Empire by deposing Romulus Augustulus. Roman administrators and bureaucrats kept doing their jobs, the Senate still existed and comprised of Romans and life in Italy went on as normal. He even built monuments and repaired older ones. He ruled as a nominal governor of the Eastern Empire and paid lip service to the Emperor in Constantinople to avoid any conflict. But as he started getting more ambitious the Eastern Empire played the Ostrogoths against him and Odoacer was deposed by them under Theoderic the Great who again preseved Roman institutions while paying lip service to the Eastern Emperor. Things really started to change after his death when the Kingdom was divided into Pro-Romans under Amalsuntha who wanted to reunite Italy with the Eastern Empire and the anti-Romans who wanted to destroy Roman institutions in Italy and turn into a Barbarian state. After Amalsuntha was captured and killed by the Anti Romans, Justinian the Great used this as a pretext to declare war on the Ostrogoths. What followed was the extremely destructive 20 year Gothic was which saw thousands dead and Italy completely destroyed. Great cities like Rome and Ravenna turned into post apocalyptic ruins due to constant sieges. The Gothic war and the subsequent Lombard invasion is what officially ushered in the Dark Ages for Italy.

Europe went to shit for like 800 years and the Pope presided while anyone with two gold coins and a sword tried to kill their cousin. End of video

@@xunqianbaidu6917 They can't have it. As a Roman history fan I'm proudly contemptuous of the Middle Ages. Am I right? No. Do I care? Absolutely not.

@@xunqianbaidu6917 Constantinople is actually kinda cool, you got me there. But I'm more interested in their constant knife fights with the Sasanians. Post-Arab conquest Byzantium is just depressing.

good old Anabasis yeah

Didn't know that, thats interesting

I didnt know Alexander lived to 170 yrs, tho.... :D

Dunkirk was a Defeat,Nazis Germany could of wiped out almost the entire British Army,If wasn’t for Hitler’s sentimental views,that he admired the British and considered them fellow Germanic folk,If wasn’t for that,History would be different,No D Day,and the Third Reich would have Dominion Not Only Of the UK but Much Of the World..Read History Dude..p.s.The Russians won the War..

You've misinterpretted the video. 2:02 is where Xerxes' fleet was in Asia Minor before departing. You can see on 2:13 that where the Mount Athos canal was, like you said on the third claw from the left (first claw from the right) of the Chalkidiki peninsula.

Nah, Herodotus did pretty damn well for his time! 👍

Read his Histories. It Is difficult to tell apart the probable facts from propaganda. Particularly on the Persían wars he provides lots of facts with incredible detail that sound more invented than real. There Is obviously no limit to oral tradición and seems sensible to think that anyone was free to add something of his own.

Regardless he is still today named the first historian

Propotionally the Greeks lost way more men. More than half of their total forces at Thermopylae around 4,000 Hoplites out of a total of 7,000 at the beginning. Compared to the Persians who had between 70,000 - 300,000 soldiers which is kind of confusing but the ancients Greek sources tend to exaggerate for propaganda purposes. The Persians lost around 20,000 soldiers presumably but we don't know for sure, since their is a lack of Persian sources except for the biased Greek ones.

if it was soo they would have marched earlier,not waitting 3 days.and looking forothr ways to win.

@@HeroHoundoom so you beleive 4000loses accoding to greek source but not the 20000 persians according to the same source?since they won the war why should they lie,they didnt lie about the cities who joined persians,about burned athens ,about the other lossed cities,about salamis,but at thermopyles they did?it could be one more defeat among the rest

@@manoliskoutras6613 I think the Greeks were more sure of the total numbers they had on their side than about the total numbers on the Persian side. This also includes calculating the losses at Thermopylae since the Greeks lost that battle and had to retreat, so how could they have counted the dead bodies on both sides?

History hahahahahahaha yes the Greeks allied with the Persians again

it was a heroic because they sent their king and their elite to death! persians suffered huge loses, and last battle at plataies was against 10000 spartans.thats the meaning of heroe

Well thermopylae is like one of the first recorded last stands in history so yeah it is a big thing

the fall of Rome or Constantinople maybe? i like the focus on politics and daily life.

The afternath of the battle of Marathon

I've always been interested in the aftermath of Pompei

The Aftermath of the Battle of the Saw (Truceless or Mercenary War) in Cathage. It happened after the First Punic War. It rolled the political dice that led to the Second Punic War after. Hanno the Great basically removed Hamilcar Barca’s influence in Carthage by allowing them to set up a private empire in Spain. Hamilcar met many of his and Hannibal’s political allies during this battle. Carthage should’ve reformed after losing the first punic war, and focused on retaking its Mediterranean colonies. It doomed Carthage to lose in the Second Punic War. Rome was never seriously threatened at sea after the First Punic War, and Hannibal had to depend on Iberian troops and an overland route through the alps for reinforcements in what was basically a private war. Carthage sent very little troops and even less resources.

Little big horn

Still tasting the bitter taste of crow huh, and after all that time too, lol

@@kenneth9874 "Crow"? I'm not sure I follow. Who are you, again?

@@Mahbu oh, but you always follow

@@kenneth9874 That's a little weird. Oh, were you one of those spartan groupies that got all butt hurt? That was, like, five years ago.

@@Mahbu nah, just recalling Alexander making fools and vassals almost at will of the persians thinking that must be the reason for your comment

If you have been to the Acropolis, you can see the foundations of the original Temple to Athena that the Persians burned down in front of the Erechthion Maidens :) They also took some of the Fallen Columns from this first Temple and installed them into the sides of the Acropolis’ foundations to be displayed so that no Greek or other Athenian would forget about the Persians atrocities when they burned down their city! 👍

@@SpartanLeonidas1821 Alexander made them pay.

@@jacktattis That’s true! 💯👍🏻

@@xunqianbaidu6917 is of the most beautiful but inaccurate Historical film!

@@alejandrosakai1744 An incredibly mediocre movie even if you ignore the wank fest and historic inaccuracies. Meet the spartans....a parody of 300 is more entertaining

Phocis got phocced in the ass to death

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@@chrisyoung5363 Thank you man!

It's been 2,501 years since the battle and coastlines constantly change, volcanoes create new land, and water erodes coastlines.

Yes.

It has changed as you describe. There are enough sources that describe the narrow pass at the hot gates that it would be odd to doubt it's existence. Time and the sea have made their mark on the once fabled location of Greek defenses

The shoreline around Thermopylae retreated a lot in the last 24 centuries. The sediment of the river acummulated and created a couple miles of land. The shoreline back then would be around the line where the highway is today. A similar thing happened at Miletus, that used to be a port town but is now sittting in a hill over a plain. another major change is lake Copais in Beotia that got drained in the 1850’s.

You're forgetting how thoroughly the Ten Thousand trashed Achaemenid armies earlier. The phalanx was very well protected from missile fire. Losses were definitely disproportionate in favor of the Greeks, just not disproportionate enough.

The terrain has been altered throughout the ages. At the ancient times, Thermopylae were a narrow pass between Kallidromon mountain and the sea. Millenia of debris deposit by dozens of streams and torrents have created that flat plane you saw.

The geography of the place have changed a lot. Now the piece of flat land between the mountains and the sea is much wider. It was pretty narrow 2000 years ago...

It's worth remembering that this was AFTER The Ten Thousand and their March to the Sea. Greek hoplites were considered the greatest heavy infantry in the world even by the Persians at this point. That kind of legend impacts morale.

@@TheAchilles26 I'm pretty sure this happened before the ten thousand. I could be wrong though.

@@adamtedder1012, I'm pretty sure the Ten Thousand even predated the Ionian Revolts that kicked off Marathon

@@adamtedder1012, I stand corrected, just checked the dates. Ten Thousand was later, however, the reputation of Greek hoplites was significant even in Persia even by this point. They were considered the best heavy infantry in the world at the time

@@TheAchilles26 yes sir. I remembered reading the book back when I was in the military. Had to be around 2004. Awesome story.

Disgraceful language you're reported primate

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Tell the Germans that lol

We!? You and I weren’t alive back then, nor should we take credit for their work and failures. Even then, they still fought each other! They’re were Greeks that were allied with the Persians, dude. Their wasn’t really much of Greek unity. They just feared the Persian superpower at the time. It took Alexander and his father to stop this and bring true Greek unity. Both were also killed by their fellow Greeks. The Romans did a much better job with us, that we kept their Empire alive in the East for another thousand years.…😖

@@90skidcultist yeah ! So ? That doesnt change the fact that greek history is full of civil wars.

@@tg1095gr ...That is my point, sir.🤬

None have come to us from that period Xerxes would have had them for sure .

But he did become a Law Abiding Citizen!

@@greg5775 only after London and the whitehouse had fallen

@@patricianoftheplebs6015 Jesus, yes, imagine fighting for slavery, but the Persians forbid slavery

@@user-cg2tw8pw7j Reminiscent of the conquest the US does towards those who violate their values. You practice Zoroastrianism, and can tell us of their need to invade other countries?

@@user-cg2tw8pw7j Wait, is your name written in the language used today for selling slaves? oh my, the irony.