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In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 men against an estimated 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae — and almost won. The Greeks successfully used their home terrain ...
However, few people know that, 2,421 years later, Thermopylae was once again the site of another battle during World War II: the Allies and Germans clashed there, and this time, the Greeks, aligned ...
Leonidas, king of Sparta, commanded the ground forces at Thermopylae: 300 members of his royal Spartan bodyguard, called the hippeis—the subjects of countless books, movies, poems, and songs ...
From a purely strategic standpoint, the Battle of Thermopylae wasn’t necessarily a defining moment of the Greco-Persian war. Later battles, like Salamis, which left the Persian fleet in tatters, would ...
The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic Battles That Saved Democracy Stephen P. Kershaw. Pegasus, $32 (464p) ISBN 978-1-63936-234-9 ...
Though defeated at Thermopylae, the Greeks went on to two victories, first at sea off the island of Salamis in 480 B.C. and then on land near the city of Plataea the following year.
Without Spartan participation in the war against Persia at the beginning of the fifth century B.C.— especially their heroic stand at the critical Battle of Thermopylae in 480—the Persians may ...
The movie, which depicts the brave stand of 300 Spartans against a marauding army of hundreds of thousands of Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C., "is about as violent as 'Apocalypto' and twice as ...