Talk:Greco-Persian Wars
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Brilliantly succinct. Even too succinct for such a great subject! User:Wetman
- Thanks - I'm sure it will expand. It's usually better for article architecture to develop top-down, plus the poor reader would rather link to additional articles for depth instead of being subjected to 5,000 word narratives. :-) We are, after all, an encyclopedia and not a history book! Stan 15:23, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The Battle of Thermopylae was never meant to stop thep persian advance, it was meant to slow it down. King Leonidas chose his the 300 with great care: They were all older men, who had already raised families. They were going there to die. And I don't think 300 men holding off a quarter million for a few days counts as a failure.
"Greco-Persian Wars"?
Who calls these the "Greco-Persian Wars?" anyway? I don't think I've ever seen it written that way before. Let's not go inventing nonstandard terminology here. Stan 03:59, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- The Encyclopedia Britannica uses "Greco-Persian". My reasoning went like this: it would be nice to have "Persian Wars" as a disambiguation page for the various sets of Persian Wars (Greco-Persian, Romano-Persian, Byzantine-Persian, etc). Also, "Persian Wars" is of course from the POV of the Greek and we try to avoid POV here. But on reflection, I think I was too bold, and I should have made the redirect the othre way, with the disambiguation page at Persian Wars (disambiguation). Sorry. Gdr 10:50, 2004 Aug 11 (UTC)
- I of course never look at EB so as to keep from being tainted. :-) It's a good point about the other Persian wars, but the disambig page seems like a good idea, plus avoids editing all those links! Stan 14:09, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
(Moved here from User talk:Gdr) Hi...what is the use of moving Persian Wars to Greco-Persian Wars? Has this been discussed anywhere? Are there plans to write articles about other (Roman/Byzantine) Persian Wars? (Just curious since I know nearly everything links to "Persian Wars".) Adam Bishop 22:57, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- There are those who spell it "Graeco-", too! :-) Noel 16:01, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
