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Facts

Died 480 BCE • Thermopylae • Greece • ancient Greece
Title / Office king (490BC-480BC), Sparta
Role In Battle of Thermopylae • Greco-Persian Wars

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Jacques-Louis David: Leonidas at Thermopylae
David, Jacques-Louis: Leonidas at Thermopylae
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Pausanias
Greek military officer
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Leotychides
king of Sparta
Agesilaus II; Pharnabazus
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Cleomenes III
king of Sparta
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Lysander
Greek military leader
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Brasidas
Spartan military officer
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Agis II
king of Sparta
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Archidamus II
king of Sparta
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Archidamus III
king of Sparta
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Agis III
king of Sparta
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Gylippus
Spartan general
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Archidamus IV
king of Sparta
Bas-relief detail of Xerxes I wearing a robe and crown, holding a flower, from the north courtyard of the treasury at Persepolis, now in the Archaeological Museum in Tehran.
Xerxes I
king of Persia
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
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Aristides The Just
Aristides The Just
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Agis IV
Agis IV
king of Sparta
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Nabis
ruler of Sparta
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king of Sparta
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Archidamus V
king of Sparta
Demaratus, bronze bust; in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
Demaratus
king of Sparta

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