Bret Devereaux

What the Spartan *would* be appalled by is that we all have jobs and thus live like slaves in his eyes. Somehow that doesn't come up. I wonder why?

1) And we made it...halfway through video 4 before Molon Labe came out. Sigh. 2) He pronounces molon with the same second syllable like 'Mulan.' It's not μολόν, it's μολών. The second O is long. mol-OWN lah-BAY. Pretty sure my Greek 1 prof. would have boxed my ears for that.

Also, can we please point out that for all of Leonidas' reported wit, Xerxes did exactly that - having come (and killed Leonidas) he took their weapons. It's a lot less badass when you realize Xerxes probably responded with the Persian equivalent of, "mmm...kay."

OUCH. "Maybe 70-100 years after Themopylae...King Philip...father of Alexander"... Uh. Try 150 years.

"And he sent a message to Sparta and he said, 'if my army invades Sparta..." and the Spartans responded with just one word, "If." AND THEN HE DID INVADE THEM, in 338. And they didn't fight, they just gave up and Philip II punked them and took some land.

Hey I love this and want to send it to someone but I can't find a source for Philip invading them, Wikipedia says he just ignored them?

Good Question! The details of Philip II's reign are often difficult to reconstruct as our sources are more interested in Alexander than his father and so there are frustrating lacunae.