Thermopylae - Kolonos Hill and the 300 Spartans (3)
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- 1st October 2015
A visit to the battlefield where the Greeks fought against the mighty Persian Empire in 480 BC.
This video shows the statue of Leonidas from the hill and a view of the battlefield from the hill. Also, the strange feeling comes back!
Video in 1080 HD
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If only those mountains could’ve talked they would have a hell of a story to tell.
So thankful that I was born in modern America !
I so badly need to go there cool video bro
Thank you for these great videos. I do appreciate them. As someone that typically hates modern cinema I would make an exception for the 300 movies. Although they're historically inaccurate they're still kickass fantasies.
+lion8787 :-) I haven't actually seen that film, although I did watch a brief scene the day before I went to the site. I was very lucky to get the place to myself, although the amount of tourists that turn up in coaches and don't bother to cross the road to the hill is very strange. Modern laziness I guess!
"American movies are utter nonsense". I'm American and I mostly agree. Our love affair with Hollywood has soured!
I live on the west coast of the US and I always get jealous that we have no real history out here as far as ruins. Living in a place like Greece or Italy would be amazing, so much history to be absorbed all around you.
Great video of the battlefield. Sad to see with the exception of the monuments there seems to have been no effort to preserve and educate the public as to what happened here and it's importance to western civilization. Once again great job on the video.
that wall and cliff face were found to the left ....your in the wrong place...your at the spartans finally stand where they were arrowed
The tingling feeling you feel could be heightened emotions.
300 while not accurate is based on a graphic novel which is also not accurate. I don't think the author was going for accuracy when he wrote it and was just going for entertainment. The movie itself was entertaining despite the inaccuacies.
The portrayal of the Persians were also massively inaccurate but props to the film for making them seem terrifying as hell because that is the feeling you get in Sid Meier's Civilization games when those bastards get the Immortals up and decide they want your cities. The only thing worse in that game is when Persia decides to team up with Shaka Zulu and his Impis when taking your cities.
You talk from the perspective of Hollywood films and games. Are you serious?
The archaeological evidence shows clearly there was a massive assault on the hill at the time of the battle, providing evidence of the historical accounts. The hill is very small and certainly 300 men would be an accurate number based on the space available.
The tingling feeling is not heightened emotions, I can assure you of that. I never had any emotions at the time, just casually wandering around and reporting on what I was seeing. There was no expectation at all. I experienced this both times at Thermopylae (2015 and 2017). A similar thing happened at Marathon (2015), but I did not have the same experience on my second visit there (2017).
@@StephenMaybury72 I mean the movie overall is inaccurate. Yes, the battle was real, and yes the 300 Spartans did exist. I was talking about the movie being inaccurate and the comic being inaccurate because they were made with entertainment in mind.
@@StephenMaybury72 Did the last few of the Spartans not retire to this hill at the very end of the battle where Xerces finished them off with just arrows? The battle for Leoidas' body was over by this stage and the Sprartans probably wanted to huddle to die together. The battle proper was in front of the hill
Why is the sea so far away now?
It silted up over many years.
As you stated in the film 300 there was a huge cliff which is what stopped the Persians from going around. In reality, there wasn't such an obstacle. This kind of begs the question. Why didn't they go around? Why did they funnel themselves down that path? Very strange thing to do when you think about it.
That’s exactly what I’m thinking, it doesn’t make any sense. I think too many details of the battles have been lost and the story we have is sensationalist.
The terrain has significantly changed over the last 2400 plus years, as sand and silt has back filled kilometers worth of ground. At 480 BC there were cliffs which prevented any flanking.
I don't think this video or commentary is correct, the hill is Colonos hill where the remainder of the Spartans pulled back to when they realised that the Persians had outflanked them, this is where the Persian arrows rained down on them until they were wiped out. Looking from the hill and to the right hand side was were the pass was, but all those years of erosion and where the sea was then, it is difficult to picture what it was like although there are overview diagrams showing the lay of the land at that time.
down the path ...south a spartan body was found buried in full battle gear
What is your source on this please?
It's a Shame it's abandoned.
Isnt it that last stand of leonidas and his group was around thousand members? Wikipedia says something simillar
Where did the phrase "The 300" come from is their real numbers where in the thousands ? Weird
The other 700 were allied Greeks at the start of the last battle
The film 300 was British made
It's an American film made by Warner Bros.
I share your disdain for American films. Imagination and creativity have been gone for a very long time in Hollywood, it has become a pompous sham.
"American films" Yeah because Brits and everyone else don't make movies in Hollywood lol.....just Americans.
I agree American movies are unwatchable
Hahaha American moves is nonsense. 😉😉😉