The mismatch of the battle of Thermopylae, illustrated in mounds of rice. Left for the Greeks, right for the Persians. Here’s an As it Happened video all about Thermopylae A privilege to have Dr Roel Konijnendijk take me through ancient history’s most famous battle. youtu.be/m7_ksGGJd7M?...
Yes but Dan At least One of those grains of rice his going all Gerard Butler and flexing his Pecs - “see you Darius, in your wee skirt…..”
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Big curry tonight?
However you count it, there are more than 300 grains of rice there... 😄
(there's one in every group...) Is that left and right from the viewers' perspective or from the presenters' perspective?
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They say history is written by the victors and yet the world is on Greece's side when they read the story of the battle of Thermopylae.
That's because the Greeks won. Thermopylae was a delaying action. Persia failed its objective of marching into Athens and catching the famed Athenian navy in port, and it was the navy of Athens that ultimately struck the killing blow against the Persian invasion of Greece.
Oh I always thought Persia won and that they had one person left alive to tell the story