{"id":43811,"date":"2018-06-16T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43811"},"modified":"2018-06-15T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:11:46","slug":"thermopylae-east-vs-west-extra-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/06\/16\/thermopylae-east-vs-west-extra-history-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermopylae &#8211; East vs. West &#8211; Extra History &#8211; #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fvd9vxyCgCA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Extra Credits<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 14 Jun 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brought to you by <em>Total War: Arena!<\/em> Use the code HOPLITE for extra goodies: <a href=\"https:\/\/totalwararena.net\/join\/4064_EN1?utm_campaign=video1&#038;sid=SIDIKNFYsKZWK97JxAdCBwo8_kCFPS5bI6FhThIqzWSBVCbgGvvf5q-MAK6P0JokELBmW8PiATItgomprgQop06snLs9IWuKDqOedEz_-ZDNm0NmloIdLDgMH2PFPmXsr0OENPdiL0Q76pmIikMhAiXUAIlkv5gKVzkCyJCXCCaHEjUW_0_5LdYGbdYp7ix1R4-qQ&#038;utm_medium=9542&#038;utm_source=wotcpu&#038;lpsn=TWA+Extra+credits+youtube+\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/totalwararena.net\/join\/4064_EN1&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Why does everyone know the Greek defeat at Thermopylae, but victories like Salamis and Plataea remain obscure? Because it helped define Greek, and thus \u201cwestern\u201d culture. And that\u2019s thanks to one man: Herodotus.<\/p>\n<p>The oracle said that a Spartan king must fall in battle or Sparta would burn. So when Persia said \u201chand over your weapons\u201d Leonidas said \u201ccome and take them.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extra Credits Published on 14 Jun 2018 Brought to you by Total War: Arena! Use the code HOPLITE for extra goodies: https:\/\/totalwararena.net\/join\/4064_EN1&#8230; Why does everyone know the Greek defeat at Thermopylae, but victories like Salamis and Plataea remain obscure? Because it helped define Greek, and thus \u201cwestern\u201d culture. And that\u2019s thanks to one man: Herodotus. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1526,7,370],"tags":[1101,1151],"class_list":["post-43811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-greece","category-history","category-middle-east","tag-persia","tag-sparta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-boD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43811","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=43811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43812,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43811\/revisions\/43812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}