- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Zee JollyRoger
The Bungie Team is a very well read and educated group of people...I don't think Alex Trebec has a trivia question they couldn't answer. And you can tell so by their uses of Mythology and other items in their games. Most obvious being the name "Spartan"...which right now for some reason that piece of history eludes me...but just Google it.
From what I remember, Spartans were an elite group of soldiers in roman times. I don't recall exactly, so don't flame me if I'm wrong. I know their main colors back in history were red and gold (my favorite colors, lol) and that they were very good soldiers. They fought with a group of 300 soldiers against an army of 10,000 soldiers called "The Immortals."
The Spartans fought with spears and heavy shields, using them to completely block off any attacks from The Immortals." They fought for a long time, and they fought within a Valley. The Spartans were able to defend all of their sides, and even had fatigued soldiers rest in battle while the others fought!
Unfortunately, a traitor showed The Immortals a way to get around the Spartans and attack from behind, but they still were able to hold them back. Finally, the Immortals, facing heavy casualties, brought in their best archers to drown the Spartans with arrows. This is where this famous quote came from I believe:
Spartan#1: "I head the Immortals have so many archers, that they could cover up the sun!"
Spartan#2: "Then we shall fight in the shade!"
(something like that)
But yeah, I read about these guys awhile ago (before Halo, so HA) Ancient battles are very interesting to hear/ read about. Look it up sometime, if you have the opportunity to. (BTW, there were more battles then the one I described above)
[Edited on 5/16/2006]