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Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film directed by Ted Post and starring Burt Lancaster.The film is based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel Incident at Muc Wa [1] about U.S. Army military advisors during the early part of the Vietnam War in 1964, when Ford was a correspondent in Vietnam for The Nation.
Oh Stranger, tell the Spartans That we lie here obedient to their word. [159] From the 1962 film The 300 Spartans: Stranger, when you find us lying here, go tell the Spartans we obeyed their orders. [160] From the 1977 film Go Tell the Spartans: Go tell the Spartans, passerby: That here, by Spartan law, we lie.
His ability to compose tastefully and poignantly on military themes put him in great demand among Greek states after their defeat of the second Persian invasion, when he is known to have composed epitaphs for Athenians, Spartans and Corinthians, a commemorative song for Leonidas and his men, a dedicatory epigram for Pausanias, and poems on the ...
Thermopylae is the site of the Battle of Thermopylae between the Greek forces (including Spartans, Thebans and Thespians) and the invading Persian forces, commemorated by Simonides of Ceos in the epitaph, "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That here we lie, having answered our common oaths."
The Prince is a compilation of four previously published novels: Falkenberg's Legion, Prince of Mercenaries, Go Tell The Spartans, and Prince of Sparta. Of the original novels, the first two were written by Pournelle alone; the last two were cowritten with Stirling. Pages 174–176 of the printed edition are new to the compilation. [2]
The 1962 film The 300 Spartans depicts the battle and the broader conflict as a parallel of the then-ongoing Cold War, with Greeks and Persians representing NATO and the Soviet Bloc respectively, and Sparta representing the US. [11] The 1998 novel Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield is unusual in depicting the battle as gruesome rather than ...
When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrows these gave their today. This epitaph was inspired by an epigram of the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos to the fallen at the Battle of Thermopylae , and was later used (with a misquote) for the memorial for those who fell at the Battle of Kohima .
"Stranger, tell the Spartans that here we lie, obedient to their laws." Epitaph, a single elegiac couplet by Simonides on the dead of Thermopylae. Translated by Cicero in his Tusculan Disputations (1.42.101) as «Dic, hospes, Spartae nos te hic vidisse iacentis / dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur» (often quoted with the form iacentes).