Sunday, April 15, 2007

Battle of Thermopylae ...

Watched a documentary on the History Channel about this astounding chapter of history…

What I personally found remarkable in the whole episode is that when the King Leonidas of Sparta died…yes he died before all his men were killed….a fact changed by the movie 300….
His soldiers bravely fought to safeguard his dead body which they knew will be disrespected by the Persian king Xerxes.

So what was more remarkable than the fact that King Leonidas prepared his men, decided they wanted to go for this war…where odds were heavily against them, strategized it brilliantly, fought along with his soldiers………. may be would have even won if it would not have been for a traitor….is that he commanded so much respect from his men, that even when they were facing their own death, they defended his honor till they lived….

The respect he earned says about his leadership, and how the gallant men fought a war for their king with a conscience and heart …

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thats really cool...Adding more to your thought, its the leader's skill that he mentored them in such a way that they had full confidence in their leader and even after knowing their leader died,they tried to protect his dead body.I appreciate the leader.We have so many examples in indian history of such kind of people.Sometimes i feel their is so much in indian history that we can have nice oppurtunity of documentaries in our country...I should start creating documentaries of each place in our country whenever i get sometime.