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The Persians nowadays

posted 16 years ago by deeveed
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I just find it interesting that Persians aren't "gloating" of their win back in 480 BC over the Greeks in the battle. They could I think. Politically, they don't strike me as how can we say it "bashful".

[–] MrPie7 16 years ago

Some victory! 100,000 men overwhelm about a thousand trapped in a mountain pass. I guess that's why Mexico doesn't celebrate their victory at the Alamo.

[–] spookyrat1 9 years ago

I guess that's why Mexico doesn't celebrate their victory at the Alamo.

Yes, a similar analogy. Interestingly the phrase Pyrrhic victory, a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat, arose from events that occurred in the Pyrrhic Wars in this same general area of the world 200 years later.🐭

[–] Kawada_Kira (7269) 7 years ago

Why would they care to gloat about a 2 and a half thousand year old battle? Modern-day Iran doesn't have any designs on Greece, it's not an empire. It's one thing for Greece to remember the battle, because it was a battle of resistance, but Iran has no reason to care about it. They aren't interested in reviving the Persian Empire.

Moreover, Greece was at only one corner of the Persian Empire's domain, not their whole focus. Their empire stretched from Egypt to Central Asia. From an Iranian perspective, the Greco-Persian Wars were only one aspect of a much larger and wider history.