Come Leonidas, let us reason together.

It would be a regrettable waste, it would be nothing short of madness for you, brave king, and your valiant troops to perish, all because of a simple misunderstanding. There is much our cultures could share.

Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.

Yours is a fascinating tribe. Even now you are defiant in the face of annihilation and the presence of a god. It is unwise to stand against me Leonidas, consider the beautiful lands you so vigorously defend, picture it reduced to ash at my whim. Consider the fate of your women.

Clearly you don't know our women, I might as well have marched them up here judging by what I've seen. You have many slaves, Xerxes, but few warriors. It won't be long before they fear my spears more than your whips.

It's not the last they fear. There is my divine power, but I am a generous god.

I can make you warlord of all Greece, you will be rich beyond all measure, you will carry my battle standard into the heart of Europa, your Athenian rivals will kneel at your feet, if you will but kneel at mine.

You are generous, as you are divine, oh king of kings. Such an offer only a madman would refuse.

But the idea of kneeling... You see, slaughtering all those troops of yours has left a nasty cramp in my leg, so, kneeling will be hard for me.

There will be no glory in your sacrifice, I will erase even the memory of Sparta from the histories, every Greek parchment shall be burned, every historian and every scribe will have their eyes put out and their tongues cut from their mouths. Why the very mention of Leonidas or Sparta will be punishable by death.

The world will never knew you existed at all..

The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many and that when this battle was over that even a god king can bleed.

The old ones say we Spartans are descended from Hercules himself. Bold Leonidas gives testament to our bloodline, his roar is long and loud.

Jews were part of the Persian empire in those days.

FOXTROT


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