LETTERS
LETTER OF THE MONTH
Culture wars
It is always my favourite time of the month when BBC History Magazine arrives on the doorstep, and I was pleased to see some ancient history making an appearance in the November issue. I enjoyed Andrew Bayliss’s account of Leonidas and the battle of Thermopylae (Sparta’s Last Stand) – an episode that has always captured my imagination and that even helped inspire me to get into the field. However, I debated the truth of his final paragraph on the great works of literature and architecture that would “not have existed” if [Persian king] Xerxes had succeeded in his conquest.
The Persians
