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Post by Greg C. on Dec 13, 2007 19:38:43 GMT -5
Was watching a Spartan documentary and a historian brought up that in 1836, a San Felipe newspaper featured an article saying, "Thermopylae finally has a parallel" following the Battle of the Alamo.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 13, 2007 21:03:55 GMT -5
"The most valiant are sometimes the most unfortunate. Thus there are triumphant defeats that rival victories. Nor did those four sister victories, the fairest that the sun ever set eyes on - Salamis, Plataea, Mycale, and Sicily - ever dare match all their combined glory against the glory of the annihilation of King Leonidas and his men at the pass of Thermopylae." - Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
"Of those who died at Thermopylai renowned is the fortune, noble the fate:
Their grave's an altar, their memorial our mourning, their fate our praise.
Such a shroud neither decay nor all-conquering destroy.
This sepulcher of brave men has taken the high renown of Hellas for its fellow occupant, as witness Leonidas, Sparta's king who left behind a great memorial of valor, everlasting renown."
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 13, 2007 21:14:03 GMT -5
Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie
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