In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae, not far from the Greek fleet, that was anchored off the nearby ...

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 ...

Myke Cole - Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient ... One might expect a Spartan warrior who had both lost his shield and fainted in battle to prefer death to dishonor.

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive ... After the defeat and death of the Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, the Persians burned Athens, and the Greek alliance seemed close to collapse.

Spartan women were among the most ... Needless to say, he died at Thermopylae, but thanks to reports of the battle that were later preserved by Herodotus, his words live on to the present.