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A classical expression of defiance, it is among the Laconic phrases reported by the Greek historian Plutarch, [1] and is said to have been Leonidas' response to Xerxes' demand that the Spartan army lay down their weapons and surrender to the Persian army during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
The second concerns a Persian commander's demand that the Spartans and their allies surrender and lay down their weapons. The Spartans, deployed for battle, responded: " Come and take them !" In an account from Herodotus, "When the banished Samians reached Sparta, they had audience of the magistrates, before whom they made a long speech, as was ...
"Come and take it" is a long-standing expression of defiance first recorded in the ancient Greek form molon labe "come and take [them]", a laconic reply supposedly given by the Spartan King Leonidas I in response to the Persian King Xerxes I's demand for the Spartans to surrender their weapons on the eve of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. [1]
A 19th-century artistic representation of Spartan boys exercising while young girls taunt them.. The agoge (Ancient Greek: ἀγωγή, romanized: ágōgḗ in Attic Greek, or ἀγωγά, ágōgá in Doric Greek) was the training program pre-requisite for Spartiate (citizen) status.
This internal conflict tied down the Spartan army for almost 20 years. [7] However, over the course of the 6th century, Sparta secured her control of the Peloponnese peninsula. The Spartans forced Arcadia into recognizing their power; Argos lost Cynuria (the South Eastern coast of the Peloponnese) in about 546 and suffered a further crippling ...
One dead child, 100 dead children, 1,000 dead children, 10,000 dead children? ... Lay down your weapons. Let the hostages go. Let all Palestinians held in custody without charge go. Respect the ...
Stop drinking only water, but take a little wine for your stomach and your frequent illnesses. From I Timothy 5:23 Μολὼν λαβέ! Molṑn labé! "Come take [them]!" King Leonidas of Sparta, in response to King Xerxes of Persia's demand that the Greek army lay down their arms before the Battle of Thermopylae. [23]
Plutarch and Heraclides Lembus (both of whom may be using a lost work by Aristotle as a source), [citation needed] and some scholars, (such as Henri-Alexandre Wallon (1812-1904)), saw the Crypteia as a kind of secret police — a state security force organised by the ruling class of Sparta to patrol the Laconian countryside and terrorise the helots, by carrying out secret killings. [4]