Blog 2

Personally I enjoyed this weeks reading the most. Im not much of a reader but I definately got into it once a started reading these last few sections for this week. My favorite was the section on the Persian Wars, maybe it is because one of my favorite movies is '300', but it was interesting to read the actual accounts from history not just the hollywood remake of it. The story is a true underdog story. Persa wanted all of the countries around to follow their ways and conform to how their culture and society was lived. The Persians and there armys vastly outnumbered the Greeks, but troops from Greek stood strong and fought with glory and honor and all their might to save their Greek name. Troops from Athens, Sparta and Thebes all united as one to fight of the Persians. One of course, which was the nost memorable, was the army of 300 men of Sparta led by King Leonidas. The battle of Marathon was definatly one of the more memoradble ones in which Athens held a glorious victory, hence the fact that one of their own, named Miltiades was sent to take word back to Athens about the win, he ran the entire way then shouted out his last words, which were 'victory!!!" The accounts of these wars show how heroic Greece was and restored honor to their name.