GitSlayer wrote:
While the recent school of thought generally accepts a number between 60,000 and 120,000 fighting men and an equal number of support and non-combatants (due primarily to the lack of water) ancient scholars say anywhere from 800,000 to 2.5 million with support and non combatants pushing it up to as much as 5.25 million.
Right. Modern figures put it at between 200-400x; the ancient figures run between 2700x-17,500x. (I checked Wikipedia when I was giving my 100-1000x range, BTW - thanks for passing on the link for everyone else.)
That's still an order of magnitude smaller than the 100,000x the person on IMDB mentioned.
Kelvy, you slay me. 
