300 Spartans - Battle of Thermopylae (Both Parts) 480 BCE (3D Animated Documentary)

10000 of Armenians? As a historian, I can assure you that there weren't modern Armenians and Syrians back then. And Armenia and Syria founded as regions during the Roman reign. But if you want to add North Koreans and Russians to the real/ancient Persian "empire" army, then it's your choice, not history.

This is so great man, love the stories and graphics you using

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There is a rumor that the 300 weren't spartans but albanians dressed like spartans!

Could there be a smoother, less menacing Narrator? This voice turns me off.

Yes the city would be staved

And thus, fear for the spartans grew in the persians hearts.... and that was shown at platea.

I am very doubtful the Persians suffered more casualties than the Greeks at this battle.

Leonidas would walk into legendary status

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The Persian numbers to me were so mind-boggling to me growing up.... Then I learned about ancient China and was surprised to learn that armies of 100k-250k were the NORM back then, especially during their Warring states period and carrying forward... China was DEEP even back then, which is so insane to me since the story of the Spartans and their allies fighting such a huge force of Persians was the only event I'd heard of with such numbers growing up... The ancient world was nuts! Imagine all us keyboard warriors of today... We'd all have to be marching to battle back then

A spartan king was to be killed in the prophecy. Sparta had two kings

Great video. Thanks for all your work. Keep it up!! 10/10

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Very good video

great vid, deserves a lot more views

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Overall, I'd rate this presentation a B minus. The research appears to have been well done, the computer generated graphics entertaining and pleasing enough, although at times I found them to be a distraction. Where the endeavor suffers is in the narration, which is the same fault I found with with the episodes featuring the battles of Salamis & Plataea. The delivery is hurried and the diction compromised by foreign accents intermittently making the narrators difficult to understand!

Topographical features could use labeling. Of course, there's not a great need for it in this presentation; the battle at Thermopylae took place in a small, confined space. However, the locations referred to in the episodes of Salamis and Plataea were wide-ranging, yet they aren't identified on the maps. If these presentations are meant to be informative, I recommend a pedagogical approach be applied to their production.

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Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

Well done,you've more accurately stuck to the words of Herodotus than most other accounts I've seen. 😁👍

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The entire story about the 300 Spartans is nothing else but a fairy tale told as an “undeniable historical truth” :) Before being scandalized by my opinion let’s ask some questions: is there any contemporary non-Greek source (Persian, Egyptian, Phoenician, Jewish or Etruscan), which confirms this story? No? Not even 1? All right then: is there any contemporary Greek source about the Battle of Thermopylae? Only 1 – Aeschylus mentions it briefly in his tragedy “The Persians”. It seems the battle didn’t impress much the people living at that time. The ancient Greeks were creating poems, songs and plays mostly about the Mycenaean and about the Minoan age. From their point of view, those were the most glorious times, which deserved to be memorized. Well, which is the first source that tells about the 300 Spartans in such case? 2 generations later “the father of the history” Herodotus creates this legend. Many of his claims (about the Thracians for example) are proven to be wrong by the archaeologists. So the modern historians are very skeptical and don’t trust him as a reliable source. Herodotus himself was inspired by Homer so it seems he was just trying to create a contemporary patriotic version of “The Iliad”. Sometimes some gods appear to help the Greeks in his “Histories” :) In other cases mythical heroes as Heracles or Theseus raise from the dead to fight against the Persians. During the Battle of Thermopylae itself both sides begin to fight for the corpse of Leonidas (a direct copy of the fight for the body of Achilles from the Iliad). All of that is very hard to be believed but of course, the tale that 300 Spartans were fighting against hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of Persians is an “undeniable fact” :) Centuries later, there are other Greek and Latin sources, which practically repeat the version of Herodotus. Now, let’s conclude what is actually undeniable: 1) Most probably, there was a battle at Thermopylae between the ancient Greeks and Persians. 2) If there was such a battle, it was won by the Persians. 3) The battle itself didn’t impress very much the people living at that time (not even the Greeks themselves). 4) Sometime later, a monument dedicated to the victims of the battle was built on the same place. 5) Even if the Persians did win some of the battles, their 2 campaigns in Greece were not more successful than the Caesar’s campaigns in Britain. After all, it was hard for them to transport people and supplies at such long distances especially, if their fleet was destroyed by the windstorms. So for me personally, the tale about the 300 Spartans doesn’t make more sense than the tale about King Arthur and his knights or about Dracula the vampire ;)

great animation study tis topic at school now i under stand it a lot

Beautiful video! But the narrator is just subpar. I'm sorry i don't want to be rude but the intonation is very weird

Herodotus tells us that the Spartans were asked for Earth and water but threw the messengers down a well.

That first day of battle the Persian bows were almost useless due to rain damaging the strings and the composite bows themselves

Good Ancient Greek propaganda

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Amazing video good sirs! Great work!

U should do Anabasis/march of ten Southand, it will look good with your presentation

important to note that while the Spartans and Thebans were fighting Athens was evacuating, and preparing their navy, and a storm destroyed parts of the Persian navy, which would lead to the victory at salamis, and then the combined greek force at Platea when Xerses fleet was gone.

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Great video, glad to see u uploading after a while

The story of Leonidas and his brave 300. Feat 700 Thespians.

I obviously watched this already, but I'll let it run in the background to appease the algorithm.

Nice you uploaded both parts

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the details are great.

Great video, as usual!

Thanks!! Love your videos!

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I already watched both parts, but I'm going to watch them again as tribute to the algorythm.

I just love this video, Thank you so.
-Achaemenid Empire fan