Astrocloud

Even Battles like Thermopolae -the Spartans were raised from childhood to be warriors and the Persians were whipping slaves into battle...

Now think about that -the Persians would conquer a region and take men captive in order to make them slaves to fight professional solders.

Sure Xerxes supposedly had a great team of archers that would suppposedly 'blot out the sun with their arrows'. But think about what motivated the slaves to fight versus what motivated the Spartans. Hmmm... is it still glorious or possibly (with clear hindsight) obvious that the Spartans would hold them off?

Furthermore it seems like a tragedy that men were made slaves -just to be slaughtered by the Spartans. I don't know... I question the glory of every battle.