Bret Devereaux

"Athens was a sea port open to the world" Whoa, whoa. The Piraeus was a sea port. Athens is inland. C'mon, that's not a hard one. Throw a qualifier in there. Athens is about as much a port city as Rome.

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.