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Dimmukane:
The numbers were 10,000 vs. anywhere between 120,000 and 2 million. 6,000 of the 10,000 didn't show up until the fighting had started. All 300 Spartans and all 700 volunteers died, along with 80,000 Persians, at which point the Persians gave up. Frank Miller chose to emphasize the Spartans, who quite obviously killed a large chunk of those Persians. He also set the Persian army at 1 million men, half of their highest enlisted total, while still romanticizing the whole underdog thing to a great degree. For an 80:1 kill/death ratio, changing a few numbers doesn't really seem to matter. Those corpses must've reached Conan the Barbarian-esque proportions.
Narr:
No one REALLY knows how many people were in this battle.
All you need to know is that the Spartans killed a shitload of people and the contrast was all out of whack.
Dimmukane:
They do know that by the end of fighting, there had been 10,000 greeks present, and at least 120,000 spartans present, but they think it might have been higher. And they do know that the Persians ran after losing 80,000 men. Those are the certainties.
ItsAShameAboutRay:
I think people should get dressed up to go see this like they do for Star Wars. Except dress more like the charecters in the book. Nothing like spartan dresscode on a cold March night/day!
SonofZ3:
Here in Slippery Rock, where we take all our history with a rather large grain of salt, the prevailing theory (at least between my roomie and I) is that the battle at Thermopylae there were exactly 300 Spartans and 1000000 Persians, with each Spartan killing roughly 3333 Persians.
And dressing up like a Hoplite would rule.
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