Subject: They probably were there, but...
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Posted on: 2011-11-07 15:41:00 UTC
Not at the 'famous last stand' that the movie 300 talks about. There were uh... *checks wikipedia to supplement her old Classical Political history class* approx. 7000 Greeks in general at the battle of Thermopylae, but not all of them were fighting with the Spartans holding the pass at the battle the movie '300' depicts. There were approximately 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans (it is unclear if the Thebans retreated, I forget if they did or not), and possibly a few hundred other people at THAT part of the battle.
Of course, ancient estimates (by Herodotus and others) for the amount of Persian soldiers ranges from 800,000 to four million which is highly unlikely, so... >_>;