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In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. [1] an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks delayed the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. A small force led by King Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of ...
Thermopylae, narrow pass on the east coast of central Greece between the Kallídhromon massif and the Gulf of Maliakós, about 85 miles (136 km) northwest of Athens (Athína). In antiquity its cliffs were by the sea, but silting has widened the distance to more than a mile. Its name, meaning “hot gates,” is derived from its hot sulfur springs.
1,000 to 4,000 ( Herodotus) [3] ~20,000 ( Herodotus) [4] A map of almost all the parts of the Greek world that took part in the Persian Wars. The Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC, [5] was a battle in the second Persian invasion of Greece. [6] It was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I.
Jun 12, 2006 · Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Thermopylae. In the 5th century bc, the Persian empire fought the city-states of Greece in one of the most profoundly symbolic struggles in history. Their wars would determine the viability of a new direction in Western culture, for even as Greece stood poised to embark on an unprecedented voyage of the mind ...
Jan 27, 2022 · Much of what is known about the Battle of Thermopylae (and about the Greco-Persian wars generally) comes from the Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote in the fifth century B.C.
Trận Thermopylae là một trận đánh nổi tiếng trong lịch sử, là một cuộc chạm trán giữa các thành bang Hy Lạp, dưới sự dẫn dắt của Leonidas I xứ Sparta và Đế quốc Ba Tư Cổ đại dưới sự chỉ huy của Xerxes Đại đế kéo dài trong khoảng ba ngày. Trận đánh diễn ra cùng ...
Jun 12, 2006 · At Thermopylae a king and three hundred of his soldiers set the standard for battle to the death against overwhelming odds. Stripped of its helmet, Leonidas’ head is framed by his long hair. The lean skin of the warrior’s face, its color gone, stands out all the more against a short and pointed beard.
