What emerges is a story that is sure to make your testosterone pump up a few levels. Telling the story through him rather than a Spartan allows Pressfield to keep a distance from the inner working of the Spartan mindset that allowed him to reveal that world view one piece at a time. The squire, Xeo, was the guy who carried your extra spears into battle, and would pull your dead body out if things went poorly. Xerxes wants to know what it is about the Spartans that made them stand the field, and is worried about what 5,000 Spartans could do when only 300 nearly beat his best army. Steven Pressfield manages to weave a convincing narrative told through a squire of the Spartans, who narrates his story to Xerxes after the Spartan defeat at Thermopylae. The Spartans literally managed to save western civilization as we know it. This battle is consistently rated in the top five most influential of all time. They went into it knowing they never had a chance, but they managed to kill hundreds of thousands of the enemy, and buy time for the rest of Greece to rally and drive the Persians out of Europe. The place was carefully chosen so that the Spartans could not be surrounded and just swept from the field. 300 Spartans, trained since childhood that the only thing worth being was a warrior, met the Persians at Thermopylae with only a handful of allies. In 480 BC, The Persian Empire under Xerxes sent two million men into the Greek peninsula intending to incorporate the territory into their ever expanding realm.
Click below to learn more if the thought of being a Spartan gives you great joy.Īn adrenalin rush that makes you want to be a Spartan Gates of Fire is historical fiction set during the Greek Golden Age, historically accurate, with stomach-wrenching battle scenes. CACL, oh he of the great name, has given us a nice review of Gates of Fire.
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