No. We know that *Plutarch,* writing some *500 years* after Leonidas purportedly wrote (not said, but wrote) this, *claims* that Leonidas wrote it. That is *not* the same thing as smoking-gun proof that Leonidas did in fact write it. It is very likely apocryphal.https://twitter.com/BeIzerker/status/1313865283426152448 …
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Sure, he might have. But he also might not have. And movements are literally built around the presumption that he did.
Fair, though I'd say those modern movements are built around modern ideology. They grab this or that quote or bit of misremembered history, as it suits them. Take away this retort and they would find or invent another, I'm afraid. The problem isn't the quote, but the movement.
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Sure, but the notion that Sparta produced super warriors is arguably as old as the “first” (really second at least) Battle of Thermopylae. μολὼν λαβέ is integral to that myth. The movements are built around the Spartans and what they represent, using that quote as an icon.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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