{"id":74,"date":"2007-03-22T15:48:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T21:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=74"},"modified":"2007-03-22T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T22:00:31","slug":"300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have not seen it yet, but am intrigued by Hanson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2007\/03\/300_fact_or_fiction.html\">review<\/a>.  I have, however, read Herodotus, who is immensely entertaining if you can get past the formal style.  I was at La Silla when a massive snowstorm hit.  There I was, trapped in a small room with nothing but <em>The Histories<\/em> to entertain me.  I was alternating planning out a survey of a dwarf galaxy with reading about Greek city states.  And then my altitude-affected dreams were about doing surveys of Greek city states.<\/p>\n<p>Herodotus isn&#8217;t, of course, for everyone. But I have also read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gates-Fire-Novel-Battle-Thermopylae\/dp\/055338368X\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-4299139-1283960?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1174600029&#038;sr=8-1\">Gates of Fire<\/a>, which is more approachable, historically accurate, a quick read and very very good.  I heartily recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not seen it yet, but am intrigued by Hanson&#8217;s review. I have, however, read Herodotus, who is immensely entertaining if you can get past the formal style. I was at La Silla when a massive snowstorm hit. There I was, trapped in a small room with nothing but The Histories to entertain me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=74\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">300<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-300","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}