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* [[The Republic]]: Athens invented the word "democracy". And yes they did have [[Made a Slave|slaves]] and [[Feuding Families]], etc. You have to start somewhere.
* [[The Slow Walk]] (Greek hoplites in a phalanx looked like ten thousand men making a slow walk. All of them [[Made of Iron]])
** Though by this time most city-states prefered to take the last few hundred feet in a [[Zerg Rush]]. Except of course for the state that is most famous for [[The Spartan Way|discipline]].
* [[The Spartan Way]]
* [[This Is Sparta]]
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Herodotus.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: When a pontoon was wrecked by a storm the Great King did this to the Persian engineers responsible. The engineers who built the next pontoon, were "rather more careful" in their work.
** Quite likely fictional as well. Does make for a great narrative, though. Note that there was no such thing as Persian engineers - any engineers employed by Xerxes were likely Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Anatolians or Greeks.
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: Greeks were always struggling together.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Eight years after the battle of Salamis, Themistocles was banished from Athens by ostracism, then driven from Greece when the Spartans (who hated him) falsely accused him of partaking in a pro-Persian conspiracy. He found asylum with his former enemies, the Persians, and (instead of e.g. taking revenge) King Artaxerxes (son and successor of Xerxes) made him governor of Magnesia.
** Also, Pausanias.
* [[We Have Reserves]]: The Persian's chief asset according Greek sources.
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