An ancient inscription indicates that in 262 AD there was another battle at Thermopylae between the Greeks and the Goths.

The pass of Thermopylae, where Leonidas died in 480 B.C.E. Nearly 1,500 years later, the mountains above it played host to one of the most dramatic saboteur actions of World War II. Michael ...

King Leonidas, of the Greek city-state Sparta, assembled a small contingent of soldiers, compared to the horde of Persian invaders led by Xerxes, and headed for Thermopylae, a key mountain pass ...

The Battle of Thermopylae has become the stuff of legend ever since. The belief that Leonidas, the King of Sparta, commanded 300 of his fiercest and bravest soldiers into battle against what were ...

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 5th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

After the first 100,000 Persian soldiers stormed in, the federation of Greece sent 1,000 soldiers led by Leonidas I of Sparta to fight in the valley of Thermopylae in Southern Greece. 300 of them were ...

After the defeat and death of the Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, the Persians burned Athens, and the Greek alliance seemed close to collapse. But thanks to the foresight of Athenian general ...

The mortal sacrifice made by Spartan king Leonidas and his 300 elite troops at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. was described in vivid and dramatic detail in the Histories of Herodotus.

So the defenders failed 2/3 of the time. To conclude, the authors see a legend having sprung up around Thermopylae based on the heroic last stand of Leonidas and the 300 Spartans. That, along with its ...