ThoughtsSaturday, 27 August 2005 6:55 pm
Imagine your force of 7,000 warriors, decimated and holding on by a hair’s-breadth on a narrow pass flanked by the walls of a steep mountain and the sea down below. What did Leonidas say to his men on that last day, when treacherous Thebans defected to the Persian enemy? What did he say when confronted, finally, by the spectre of a thousand thousand men arrayed against his own?
What must he have thought when he saw the screaming hordes advancing against his 600 Thespians and the remnants of his own 300?
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