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How do you know how many people fought in the battle of thermopylae?
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The historian Herodotus lists the contingents on both sides.
His list of the Persian army and fleet is outrageously large, giving the whole levy of the Persian Empire at over 2 million. It would be impossible to move and sustain such numbers with the logistic effort available, and why anyway would Persia take the trouble to bring, say, African knifemen all the way to face up against armoured infantry? A proper assessment would put their force at 180,000, which matches the divisional and corps commanders he mentions - three corps each comprised of five infantry divisions and one cavalry division of 10,000 (a 'myriad') each..
His list of the contingents of the Greek cities is reasonable in outline at about 7,000 - but he is talking about armoured infantry, not mentioning the light infantry, archers etc. The Spartans listed at 300 (King Leonidas' personal bodyguard) but omits the 2,100 light infantry the armoured warriors had with them (at Plataia the full Spartan army was 5,000 armoured infantry and 35,000 light infantry). And then there were the light infantry which the other contingents brought with them - usually one per heavy infantryman. So we are talking about 16,000 all up.
And of course the pass was so narrow that all the troops assembled could not possibly have engaged in the fight.
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