TTC - Greek and Persian Wars
24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
Course No. 3356

The story of King Leonidas and his famed "300" is familiar to most students of ancient Greece. The heroic saga of how a tiny contingency of Spartan soldiers held the pass of Thermopylae against the enormous Persian force is memorialized...

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At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.
Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history--one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale....
Pressfield's descriptions of war are breathtaking in their immediacy. They are also meticulously assembled out of physical detail and crisp, uncluttered metaphor.