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Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

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combat of ancient Greece. In this book he lives with Spartans, and is one of them, and successfully includes us in that life as well. "Gates of Fire"  The "Gates of Fire" or the "Hot Gates" was another name for the narrow rocky pass at Thermopylae. In that small open space between great rocks, a hand-picked force  of 300 Spartans and about 700 allies, were to delay the invading Persians for as long as possible. The idea was that an elite force, willing to sacrifice  their lives could buy the Greeks a few more days of crucial preparation time. Sparta as strong military state What we might call counties, or provinces, were once called "city-states"  in ancient Greece. Sparta was one of those city-states. Historically, the Spartans did not choose to create great monuments, or buildings to their victories. But rather their personal  and cultural energy was devoted in creating "warriors." The warrior elite of Sparta believed barriers only existed on the mental plain. The actual "city" of this place had do  defense ways. The core belief that led to this lack of physical protection was, that, walls were something men hid behind. The Spartan ethos had no place for hiding;  Spartas men were its walls. Training: Pressfield divulges that training for Spartan "high-born" males begins at age thirteen. It is fixed in its focus, teaching men to think  before they move, and then to think, while they move. The beginning process is not to create a "fighting machine," but rather a man who can think and fight  at the same time. he brutal 13-year. Attitude: Not only do we learn of the rigors of warrior training for Spartans we learn that a warriors attitude gains