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Leonidas

King of Sparta. He was killed in 480 BC while defending the pass of Thermopylae with 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans against a huge Persian army.

Leonidas (died c. 480 BC)

Greek epigrammatist from Taranto. About 100 of his poems are included in the collection called the Greek Anthology.



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The conspicuous example is Thermopylae where a handful of Spartans under the leadership of Leonidas held off vast hordes of Persian invaders, succumbing only when they were betrayed.
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