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Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and Halo
Posted By: JR <jgale10@hotmail.com>Date: 10/16/06 6:39 p.m.

In Response To: The 300, Thermopylae, and Halo (Brodingo)

: I know this connection has been made before, that the warriors involved in
: the Battle of Thermopylae were Spartans, but something struck me today.

: I've been studying Ancient Greek history lately and things I didn't notice
: before, like certain names of places or people stick out a bit more. I've
: been watching the trailer for 300 mostly because I'm so excited about
: the movie itself (Frank Miller W00T). It's about the Battle of
: Thermopylae. If you are unfamiliar with what occured during the battle and
: why there is a movie being made about it (or why the heck it's called 300
: for that matter), basically the Persian army vastly outnumbered the 300
: Spartans and other Greek allies. In fact, the Persians(and their allies)
: had exponentially more units than the Spartans, but never the less they
: fought against the odds. The leader of the Spartan squad in the battle of
: Thermopylae was King Leonidas, a veritable demi-god as he was thought to
: be a descendant of Herakles. The high-ranking Persian infantry eventually
: began advancing and outflanked them, but the Spartans and Thespians stayed
: to fight the onslaught in a sacrificial move to allow the other allied
: Greek armies to retreat and survive. Leonidas and his men KNEW what they
: are doing and that their actions meant certain death, and supposedly, as
: foretold by the Oracle at Delphi, the shedding of the king's blood would
: save Greece. And so it happened, they stood behind and fell victim to the
: arrows of the Persian archers and their allies escaped to safety.

: Now, Halo. As I mentioned before Greek names began to stick out at me and one
: place I noticed Thermopylae was on the track listing for Volume 2 of the
: Halo 2 Sountrack. The Finale suite has a track by the name of
: "Thermopylae Soon". I'm guessing this is a direct correlation to
: a part of the Halo storyline, which drawing from "soon" has not
: actually occurred yet, and I can't really fathom connecting any of the
: events near the end of Halo 2 to the events of the Battle of Thermopylae.
: So maybe you see where I'm taking this; I believe there is a strong
: possibility that there is a correlation with King Leonidas and the Master
: Chief. Yes, it is a theory of mine that Master Chief will die or at least
: suffer a terrible fate at the end of Halo 3 in an all out
: back-against-the-wall-with-a-super-weapon-pointed-in-your-face kind of
: battle to save humanity from certain doom. Could our favorite super
: soldiers find their way back together to fight side-by-side as they were
: meant and be led by the mighty Master Chief in a sacrificial campaign for
: human kind? I guess we'll have to wait and find out. Personally I hope so,
: I can't really think of a better way to end a story arc ;)

: -Brodingo
I currently just chose to do a project on Thermoplyae, so details to follow! And I'm also reading Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire, which concerns Spartans and Thermoplyae. One thing that struck me as interesting was a passage in which a man exclaims, when his city was burned, that one Spartan would have been enought to save the city. The Persian Army is obviously represented by the Covenant... the tratior to the Greeks could be Ackerson... the Greeks are humans... but what the hell are the Flood? The Ark? The Halos themselves...

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The 300, Thermopylae, and HaloBrodingo 10/6/06 12:30 a.m.
     Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and HaloDirkGently 10/6/06 12:52 a.m.
           Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and HaloBrodingo 10/6/06 1:20 a.m.
                 Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and Halovshields ash 10/6/06 4:49 a.m.
     Mmmmm...tasty.yakaman 10/6/06 7:32 a.m.
           300 Greek Spartans = 5 Spartan IIs *NM*Vlad3163 10/6/06 9:31 a.m.
           Re: Mmmmm...tasty.Hawaiian Pig 10/6/06 8:19 p.m.
           Re: Mmmmm...tasty.Rosco-128 10/6/06 11:51 p.m.
                 Re: Mmmmm...tasty.BARBARIC RAGE 10/7/06 6:40 p.m.
           Re: Mmmmm...tasty.Tucsonbatman 10/7/06 12:13 p.m.
                 Re: Mmmmm...tasty.Black Guard 10/10/06 9:01 a.m.
     Rewrite!serpx 10/6/06 11:25 a.m.
           Re: Rewrite!Brodingo 10/6/06 12:24 p.m.
     Ghosts of OnyxEvil Squid 10/6/06 6:57 p.m.
           hmm interesting... *NM*Brodingo 10/6/06 7:35 p.m.
     Thermopylae Connection In The Halo Novelszwitterion117 10/6/06 7:55 p.m.
           Re: Thermopylae Connection In The Halo NovelsBrodingo 10/6/06 9:12 p.m.
                 Re: Thermopylae Connection In The Halo Novelszwitterion117 10/7/06 8:55 a.m.
     Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and HaloJR 10/7/06 10:42 a.m.
           Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and HaloBrodingo 10/7/06 12:49 p.m.
     Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and HaloZerowind117 10/7/06 12:21 p.m.
     Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and HaloRosco-128 10/7/06 9:22 p.m.
           Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and HaloBrodingo 10/8/06 12:14 p.m.
                 Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and HaloJR 10/16/06 6:33 p.m.
     Defense of Reachthesoffish 10/8/06 1:29 a.m.
           Re: Defense of ReachDeathPredator 10/11/06 9:48 a.m.
                 Re: Defense of ReachHikaru-119 10/11/06 11:42 a.m.
     Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and HaloYour Name Here 10/8/06 6:42 p.m.
           Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and Haloj41m3z 10/8/06 7:47 p.m.
                 Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and Haloyoshiary 10/8/06 9:35 p.m.
                       Re: The 300, cortana the oracle...vshields ash 10/8/06 9:40 p.m.
     Re: The 300, Thermopylae, and HaloJR 10/16/06 6:39 p.m.
     Thanks Finn!Brodingo 10/31/06 5:16 p.m.



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