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Tag Archives: war

Thermopylae

Posted on September 7, 2012 by ccld

At Thermopylae in the late summer of 480 the Spartan king Leonidas held out for three days with a mere 300 hoplites against thousands upon thousands of the best of the Persian Empire of Xerxes I during the second Persian Continue reading Thermopylae→

Posted in Director's Comments, Recommendations, Reference, Steele, Uncategorized | Tagged Greece, history, hoplite, Sparta, Thermopylae, war

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