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	THE IRANIAN: Film review: Spartans, Darius Kadivar
		The 300 Spartans - The Lion of Sparta (1962)
		The Spartans had a superb army but were not democratic; the fact that they participated in a voting league of cities is the extent of their democracy.
		The 300 Spartans gives the opportunity to admire the tactics and fight scenes of the Spartans which is illustrated with panache for the early 60's genre of movie making and the frustrations of the Persians in dealing with the Greeks is felt keenly as the movie moves towards the climax.
	www.iranian.com /DariusKadivar/2002/October/Spartan/index.html (1372 words)

	Reader's Companion to Military History - - Spartans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Spartans were renowned among the Greeks for their fanatical adherence to their Laws, an austere and standardized mode of life, "laconic" brevity in public speech, intolerance of foreigners and foreign ways, and military prowess.
		Being a Spartan meant being both a sturdy warrior and effective manager of Helot labor; the Spartan who flinched in battle or whose kleros failed to produce was ejected from the ranks of citizens.
		The heroism of three hundred Spartans at the pass of Thermopylae allowed the Greek army to escape; Sparta's regiment fought to the last man, leaving a laconic epitaph: "Tell the Spartans we died for their Laws." Spartan leadership and hoplites ensured Greek victory in the decisive Battle of Plataea (479).
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/mil/html/ml_049900_spartans.htm (791 words)

	The AnarchAngel: Go Tell The Spartans
		That said, it was the Spartans that kept Greece from becoming slaves to the Persian empire, and for some short time at least, kept the ideals of a free society of laws, and liberties alive.
		The 300 Spartans, and their king held the hot gates for two more days against the Persians, and died to the last man but two (who were both ordered away from the battle by Leonidas to pass messages.
		Go tell the Spartans, passers by; that here obedient to their laws, we lie.
	anarchangel.blogspot.com /2007/03/go-tell-spartans.html (1473 words)

	Go Tell The Spartans -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Original text was: The Spartan Alphabet is a simplified form the common Latin alphabet used by those certain in their convinction that the Bush Administration is an alien conspiracy, whose purpose is to weaken the world's population through the slow erosion of our amassed supply of Giblet-based atmospheric weapons.
		The fourth ''Spartan'' was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1868 and sold in 1882.
		The fifth ''Spartan'' was a 2nd class cruiser launched in 1891, sent to harbour service in 1907, renamed ''Defiance'' in 1921, and sold 1931.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/63/go-tell-the-spartans.html (577 words)

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		Go tell the Spartans seems intent on informing and instructing the audience.
		Go tell the Spartans is unusual in that it is one of the few films to deal with America’s advisory role in Vietnam during the early 1960s.
		As Go tell the Spartans makes painfully clear, this is a war that the French had already lost in 1954, a war that in 1964 had become America’s problem but was still "confused and far away".
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /mypalchris/vietnam/spartans.htm (499 words)

	The American Scene
		Go Tell The Spartans: Okay, so if A.O. Scott says 300 is bad, it probably is. On the other hand, reading this favorable review, from Aintitcoolnews' Moriarty, and then this pan, from Dana Stevens, makes me want to run out and see it.
		Yes, the Spartans are being portrayed as if they were, but historically they were not: they were a communistic, militarist power built on the slave labor of their conquered neighbors.
		Spielberg used the much longer format to tell a story that united the disillusionment of the individuals caught up in great events, which is almost inevitable, with the ways they found of getting through it and without forgetting that big and important things were going on, of which they were part.
	www.theamericanscene.com /2007/03/go-tell-spartans-okay-so-if.php (12205 words)

	Averyt - 2003, June 10
		Spartan society was based solely on prowess in war.
		The 300 Spartans fought to the last man. Legend has it they died defending the body of their King.
		The Spartans were instrumental in the campaign that defeated the Persians.
	www.opinioneditorials.com /contributors/averyt_20030610.html (781 words)

	Go Tell the Spartans - The Battle of Thermopylae \| Xomba
		Go Tell the Spartans - The Battle of Thermopylae
		Without disciplined Spartans, the Phocians retreated back to their home city-state, expecting the force before them to be heading that way.
		The inscription tells little of grand schemes or profound and empty gestures of the future, but simply of men clinging to their own ideals.
	www.xomba.com /go_tell_the_spartans_the_battle_of_thermopylae (1925 words)

	Green Berets and "Born Killers": Myth-Making and the Vietnam War in American Film ~ Alexander M. ...
		Go Tell the Spartans take place in Penang, South Vietnam, in 1964, when there were only a small number of Americans in Vietnam and their role was almost exclusively that of advisors.
		Go Tell the Spartans begins to establish a new series of myths concerning American involvement in Vietnam.
		Go Tell the Spartans, therefore, represents an attempt do deal with the Vietnam War in myths that had been created explicitly for the war.
	www.lsus.edu /la/journals/ideology/contents/bielakowski.htm (5644 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Go Tell the Spartans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Go Tell the Spartans" was the best film released in 1978 about the Vietnam War, which was the same year as both "Coming Home" and "The Deer Hunter." This is because those other films were less about the actual war than they were about relationships and the code of the warrior.
		Go Tell the Spartans is one of the best, albeit little known, movies about the Viet Nam war, which was overshadowed by Platoon, Hamburger Hill and Full Metal Jacket.
		Ultimately 'Go Tell the Spartans' is more interesting as a piece of post-Vietnam sociology than as entertainment, tragedy, or history.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6302365686 (904 words)

	ipedia.com: Leonidas I Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the first day of the siege, when Xerxes demanded the Greeks surrender their arms, Leonidas is said to have replied, "Come and get them." And on the third day, the king is reputed to have exhorted his men to eat a hearty breakfast, because that night they would dine in Hades.
		Leonidas fell in the thickest of the fight; the Spartans attempted to retrieve his body, but given the numbers they faced, the body did fall into Persian hands.
		He was buried with full honors, including a very un-Spartan display to wailing and mourning (Spartans normally accepted death in battle as a matter of course and disapproved of outward greiving) and a carved lion was dedicated at his death site.
	www.ipedia.com /leonidas_i.html (472 words)

	Leonidas I of Sparta
		Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
		In 480 he was sent with about 7000 men to hold the pass of Thermopylae against the army of Xerxes of Persia.
		He was buried with full honors, including a very un-Spartan display of wailing and mourning (Spartans normally accepted death in battle as a matter of course and disapproved of outward grieving), and a carved lion was dedicated at his death site.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/LeonidasI.html (571 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Go Tell the Spartans at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Years before, the French soldiers had done their duty, just as the 300 Spartans had at Thermopylae, dying in place fighting against impossible odds rather than surrendering or retreating.
		It is Wasson who translates the cryptic inscription over the old Foreign Legion cemetery: "Stranger, when you find us lying here, go tell the Spartans that we did our duty." The rest of the squad cover the stereotypes of soldiers quite well with a few welcome surprises.
		Go Tell the Spartans is probably the best movie about Vietnam I’ve seen.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-6F76-903F267-38A85854-prod6 (565 words)

	Go tell the Spartans what a bunch of Nazis they are \| Samizdata.net
		The Spartans were also pretty nasty to each other -- they were by no means free to live their own lives and the male Spartan citizen was essentially a member of an elite fascist/collectivist overclass.
		There is a grudging respect for the Spartan consitution and their faithfulness to the laws of Lycurgus, even though the authors held Spartan society in contempt.
		Growing up I was told repeatedly that Spartan mothers demanded their sons come back with their shields or on them and the story about the Spartan child with wolf (he was called to attention and had secreted the wolf in his tunic.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/2007/03/go_tell_the_spa.html (6377 words)

	Go Tell The Spartans
		Go Tell The Spartans, Stranger Passing By That Here Obedient To Their Words We Lie.
		The Spartans and Ancient Greece in general has long been one of my favorite historical periods and I am extremely pleased to finally be able to be addressing this all-important period and its events in miniature.
		With the Spartans we had to decide whether to leave capes on or off and decided for this 'round' to leave them 'capeless' (with the exception of the officers) as it is reported that these would be removed for battle.
	www.conteco.com /PreView/Spartanscolletter.htm (1324 words)

	The Spartans: An Epic History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The opening section, ‘Go, Tell the Spartans’, discusses the evolution of Sparta from a simple collection of villages to the most powerful fighting force in Ancient Greece.
		The Spartans also preferred to rely on their military strength for defence, considering walls to be effeminate.
		The Spartan naval forces, boosted by financial aid from Persia, were finally able to force the issue to an overall Spartan victory in 404, ending the almost-thirty years of war.
	www.shvoong.com /books/history/6876-spartans-epic-history (819 words)

	Amazon.com: Go Tell Spartans: Video: Burt Lancaster,Craig Wasson,Jonathan Goldsmith,Marc Singer,Joe Unger,Dennis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Spartans, their Helots and the Thespians allies died to a last man. It was one of the most gallant stands in all of military history.
		GO TELL THE SPARTANS, STRANGER PASSING BY The title of this movie is an allusion to Thermopylae.
		Go Tell the Spartans is an excellent war picture about a topic not often dealt with in movies, the American involvement in Vietnam in the early 1960s.
	www.amazon.com /Go-Tell-Spartans-Burt-Lancaster/dp/6302365686 (1782 words)

	recordonline.com - Go tell of the Spartans
		As the soldiers raised their rifles, the old man shouted, "Go tell the Spartans," the same words shouted at the famous Battle of Thermopylae 2,500 years ago, when 300 Spartans held off an army of hundreds of thousands.
		The modern one, called the Leonidas Monument in honor of the Spartan king who fell there, is engraved with his response to Xerxes' demand that the Spartans lay down their weapons.
		The Spartans' stand is described as a suicide mission to hold the pass against the invading hordes of the Persian army.
	www.recordonline.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070309/ENTERTAIN/703090310 (1337 words)

	War » Sly Civilian
		It tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Cambodia and why American napalm and Green Beret forces have already been active against rebels in Peru.
		Go tell the Spartans, that here we lie in obedience to their laws.
		Go tell the Spartans that we die here too because we didn’t get it the first time around.
	slycivilian.com /?cat=11 (2171 words)

	digitalk
		While Leonidas and his men are off bludgeoning for valor, his wife, Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey), remains behind both to ward off the leering insinuations of Theron (Dominic West), a scheming politico, and to urge the government to commit more troops to back her husband.
		The Spartans, aided by a force of less motivated-and-trained fellow Greeks, defend a narrow pass between two steep cliffs and fight off a succession of attacks by the Persians.
		While Spartans were celebrating the Carnea, he marched to Thermopylae (Hot Gates) as commander of an allied Greek army of about 6,000 or 7,000 men, occupying the strategic pass from north to central and southern Greece to stop the Persians invading central Greece.
	dl.nlb.gov.sg /digitalk/2007/03/stranger_tell_the_spartans.html (1353 words)

	(GCQY7Q) Go Tell The Spartans by lyonden_ut
		Fearing an uprising of their huge slave population, and fearful of going to war before the conclusion of the Carneia festival, the deeply superstitious Spartans contributed only a small force of 300 hoplites, hand-picked and commanded by King Leonidas.
		After their spears broke, the Spartans kept fighting with their xiphos short swords, and after those broke, they were said to have fought with their bare hands and teeth.
		The last Spartans were killed by a barrage of arrows after fighting fanatically to recover their king's body, having been driven back into the narrowest part of the pass onto a small hill.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCQY7Q (1501 words)

	Go tell the spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we
		Go tell the spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we
		Re: Go tell the spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
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	www.translatum.gr /forum/index.php?topic=156.0 (735 words)

	Go Tell The Spartans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the slaughtering pen at Thermopylae -- as the narrow killing fields might be called -- a king died and a legend was born.
		Sparta the steadfast and self-sacrificing, Greece unflagging in its fight for freedom, Xerxes the flummoxed, Demaratus the traitorous: These are the images left in the summer heat.
		Some of the more noteworthy contributions, besides the three hundred Spartans, were four hundred men each from the great states of Thebes and Corinth.
	historynet.com /mhq/bldspartans (1998 words)

	Molon Labe ("Come And Get Them)
		Since the 300 knew they were going to die fighting against overwhelming force the first requirement was that each man had to have a son left behind.
		However, the Spartans gallant defense gave the rest of Greece more time to mobilize and increased their morale and willingness to fight.
		It reads: "Go tell the Spartans, travelers passing by, that here, obedient to their laws we lie."The point of this true story is when anybody demands you to give up your guns, tell them "MOLON LABE".
	www.outdoorsunlimited.net /~jpic/gun17.htm (417 words)

	John & Belle Have A Blog: Go Tell the Spartans
		It was an excellent film about Vietnam, from the signature helicopter arrival near the opening, the contrast between the technocratic and the boots on the ground prosecution of the war, and the impacts on the individuals, both personal, and as soldiers.
		Go Tell The Spartans was a military movie, about war and soldiers, and what it means to be a member of the class that is authorized to actually wield the deadly weapons and kill people in the name of so many others.
		Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, here in honer of their laws here we lie.
	examinedlife.typepad.com /johnbelle/2006/02/go_tell_the_spa.html (1834 words)

	UK Indymedia - Go tell the Spartans / against Hollywood war on Iran propaganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Even though the Spartan Gerousia (Congress) does not want to declare war, only King Leonidas knows what is needed and he makes the unilateral decision that he and his 300 Spartan men must go to battle for truth, justice and the Spartan way.
		King Leonidas is not going to let this happen so he takes his elite fighting force to the pass of Thermopylae to stand against the million man slave-army of the kingdom of Persia.
		One Spartan survivor is sent back to tell the story and so the heroism of the 300 Spartans who fought a hopeless battle against the overwhelming Persian slave army is remembered for posterity.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2007/03/365293.html (2596 words)

	Go Tell the Spartans: How the 300 Misrepresents Persians in History
		Herodotus' fanciful numbers are used to populate the Persian army, and Plutarch's discussion of Greek women, specifically Spartan women, is inserted wrongly in the dialogue between the "misogynist" Persian ambassador and the Spartan king.
		Spartan women were different than the Athenian women, but Persian women of this period had more freedoms than either the Spartans or Athenians and interceded not only in political matters, but also joined with the army, owned property, and ran businesses.
		The battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE) has been recorded as the last stand of 300 Spartans who died to the very last man to protect free Greece, which is a myth happily held up by the modern West as a symbol of resistance against the East.
	www.payvand.com /news/07/mar/1251.html (2317 words)

	PrecisionShooters -> The 6.8mm????? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		ST "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie."
		I have heard rumors that the Special Forces are looking into the possiblity of such a round to chamber in their M-16 style rifles.
		You have to remember one thing about this round, its being devloped for a very small window of use,and its by the Spe-Ops people, the reason behind the 6.8 slug is nothing more than the worked out SD of the slug and the down range job it will do.
	www.precisionshooters.com /ibforum/index.php?showtopic=2535&st=0& (1130 words)

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