Talk:Battle of Thermopylae

Phyric victory?

Is it a phyric victory or not? NotSoTough (talk) 09:37, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

You've misspelled "pyrrhic". Quinn Viers (talk) 23:46, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

GA Reassessment

Battle of Thermopylae

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Result: Closing as keep to allow Matarisvan to work on the topic in the order they want. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:03, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

This article has several uncited statements, including the entire "Thespian monument" section. Z1720 (talk) 19:39, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

@Z1720, I was planning to work on this one and all the other articles in the Second Persian invasion of Greece topic. I was just about to ping the GAR process to ask for 6-8 months of time for rewriting all these articles like I did with the article on Plataea. My plan was to start with Mycale (easiest), and do Thermopylae (toughest) at the end, but this GAR being opened now could reverse that. Could a pause be put on this GAR, or perhaps could it be closed till I am done with the rewrites? Tagging @AirshipJungleman29 and @UndercoverClassicist for their views. Matarisvan (talk) 18:41, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

@Matarisvan: I'm fine with this being paused, and potentially put on hold and removed from the GAR list while edits are ongoing. Z1720 (talk) 20:20, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

@Matarisvan: There's no rush to bring an article to GAR. Please ping me if you would like me to review the article again. Z1720 (talk) 14:49, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

• @Matarisvan: Are you still interested in working on this? Z1720 (talk) 02:57, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
  • Z1720: Yes, I am. However, I will need at least 2 months to commence work on this rewrite, because I am working on Artemisium and Salamis first, which are relatively easier to rewrite and have fewer commentaries. Please allow me time until April 2025 to finish this rewrite, if I haven't, you must open a 2nd reassessment. Matarisvan (talk) 12:31, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

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Reference to 2006 film - surely at least just one?

The 2006 Zach Snyder film 300 (film) is a well known modern popular cultural depiction of this battle. I can understand that historians may have qualms with it, and a previous "popular culture" section was removed wholesale, and that there is a comment saying "PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANY "CULTURAL" INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE" - but surely there should be at least one reference to it even if only for reasons of disambiguation. As a reference point for why I'm putting this forward - I was pretty confused when opening the article as to whether it really was the same battle depicted in the film that I knew was so well known from the 2000s, and searching the text of the article gave no clarification as to whether it was the same thing or not. Nuclearpidgeon (talk) 03:46, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

There is a mentioning of the film atm in a pop-culture section. The issue with "300" the film isn't merely that historians have qualms with it, but that the film is so fictionalized that barely anything at all beyond general references in it resemble the battle as it happened in reality. That you wouldn't realize the film references this battle also makes sense generally speaking as it is perhaps one of the most both misunderstood and intentionally lied about battles. ~2026-18406-50 (talk) 20:34, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Citations concerns

I noticed that one of the cited websites lists Wikipedia as its only source. This citation and relevant part of the article should be removed.

87. "1941 Battle of Thermopylae" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 September 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2019. Quinn Viers (talk) 23:51, 3 April 2026 (UTC)