"Come and take them." David vs Goliath
"Come and take them." David vs Goliath One of the greatest David vs. Goliath tales of history is the battle of Thermopylae, when 300 Spartans held off a huge Persian army. Of these 300, 299 perished; a lone survivor took the story back to his people. Many of us have seen the film 300, but how authentic is the red-cloak-wearing-six-pack-filled movie? Well, for a start, there weren't just 300, and they weren't all Spartans. There is thought to have been at least 4,000 soldiers on the first two days and around 1,500 men involved in the epic last stand. Even if, as has been suggested, the vastness of the Persian army has been exaggerated, the above numbers of those who fought against them still pales in comparison. The Persian king Xerxes had at the most an army that was 100,000 strong, although it was much likely smaller. In 480 BCE, he invaded Greece with the intention of subduing the city-states and adding them to his far-reaching empire. He was relying on the Greek