Instead of doing commentaries on each video, I've decided to compile them into a podcast.

In this first episode, we look at the reasons the Persians brought 3 million men to fight with a few thousand at the Battle of Thermopylae.

Battle of Marathon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar8nAKEyXQo

Battle of Thermopylae: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Q1T1ExaMQ

Source: http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.html

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