{"id":101728,"date":"2026-08-20T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101728"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:08:06","slug":"the-ancient-greeks-04-the-persian-invasion-3-the-road-to-thermopylae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/the-ancient-greeks-04-the-persian-invasion-3-the-road-to-thermopylae\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient Greeks 04 &#8211; The Persian Invasion 3 &#8211; The Road to Thermopylae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ol93hzNIAgg?si=wc9oOyvgPO6PYDog\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>seangabb<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 25 Mar 2026  <\/p>\n<p>Greece: A Brief History, c.700 BC &#8211; 500 AD<\/p>\n<p>Why did the Greeks resist \u2014 and how did they organise their defence?<\/p>\n<p>In this lecture, we follow the formation of the Greek coalition against Persia and the strategic decisions that led to the famous stand at Thermopylae. Against overwhelming odds, a divided collection of city-states came together to resist the greatest power in the known world.<\/p>\n<p>We examine:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The creation of the Hellenic League<br \/>\n&#8211; Spartan leadership and Greek strategy<br \/>\n&#8211; The selection of Thermopylae as a defensive position<br \/>\n&#8211; The parallel naval strategy at Artemisium<br \/>\n&#8211; The events leading up to the battle<\/p>\n<p>This lecture sets the stage for one of the most famous last stands in history, showing that Thermopylae was not an isolated act of heroism, but part of a carefully considered defensive strategy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seangabb Published 25 Mar 2026 Greece: A Brief History, c.700 BC &#8211; 500 AD Why did the Greeks resist \u2014 and how did they organise their defence? In this lecture, we follow the formation of the Greek coalition against Persia and the strategic decisions that led to the famous stand at Thermopylae. Against overwhelming odds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1526,7,370],"tags":[1527,732,1617,1066,30,1101,1468,1151],"class_list":["post-101728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-history","category-middle-east","tag-ancientgreece","tag-athens","tag-herodotus","tag-logistics","tag-navy","tag-persia","tag-seangabb","tag-sparta"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qsM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101729,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101728\/revisions\/101729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}