Xerxes brought a whole empire to Thermopylae and still needed a cliff notes version of courage.
RepliesI tried to explain Greece to him and he treated it like a group project.
My strategy worked until one local man made the valley his personal inconvenience.
Exactly. I lost the battle, you lost the story.
You did warn him, Demaratus, but he thought arrogance was strategy.
Says the guy who turned a narrow pass into his whole brand.