remember that classic moment in the film 300 when Leonidas shouts this is squatter and then probably kicks a Persian Ambassador into a hole well that's actually based on a real-life historical event but 300 doesn't show you what happened next seven years later the Persian Emperor Xerxes announced he was going to invade Greece and Sparta freaked out because in the ancient world Messengers were under Divine protection and Sparta's Elders thought the invasion might be punishment from the gods for the messenger murder so they hatched a plan to fix it they would send a Spartan warrior to
Xerxes as a sacrifice that way when Xerxes killed him the offense Against The Gods would be repaid right I mean that's just math of course being Spartans there was a big argument about who would get to make this heroic sacrifice but when the dust settled they actually let two volunteers go arriving at the Persian Court they gained an audience with Xerxes and begged with total Earnest sincerity to be killed and how did Xerxes respond by laugh setting them away very much unexecuted for more ways the Battle of Thermopylae was way better than the movie click
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