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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Battle_of_ThermopylaeBattle of Thermopylae - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. William Lisle Bowles: Stranger, tell the Spartans that we behaved as they would wish us to, and are buried here. William Golding: Stranger! To Sparta say, her faithful band Here lie in death, remembering her command. Francis Hodgson

2. www.britannica.com › event › Battle-of-ThermopylaeBattle of Thermopylae | Date, Location, and Facts | Britannica

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   Jun 24, 2024 · Battle of Thermopylae, (480 bce ), battle in central Greece at the mountain pass of Thermopylae during the Persian Wars. The Greek forces, mostly Spartan, were led by Leonidas.

   • The Battle of Thermopylae was a battle in 480 BCE in central Greece at the mountain pass of Thermopylae. It was fought between Greek and Persian fo...
   • The Battle of Thermopylae is celebrated as an example of heroic persistence against seemingly impossible odds. The Greek army consisted of about 7,...
   • The Battle of Thermopylae took place in 480 BCE.
   • A Persian army led by Xerxes I defeated Greek forces led by the Spartan king Leonidas in the Battle of Thermopylae.
   • The Battle of Thermopylae served as the inspiration for the Hollywood film 300 (2006).

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4. www.seacoastnh.com › go-tell-the-spartans-isGo Tell the Spartans is Vietnam Classic - seacoastnh.com

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   4 days ago · Unlike its flashy Hollywood peers, Go Tell the Spartans offers a gritty story of a failed mission in 1964 when America was still acting only as "military advisor" to Vietnamese forces.

5. www.britannica.com › place › ancient-GreeceAncient Greek civilization - Peloponnesian War, Sparta, Athens

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   Jun 17, 2024 · The causes of the main Peloponnesian War need to be traced at least to the early 430s—the Great Gap period—although if Thucydides was right in his general explanation for the war, namely Spartan fear of Athenian expansion, the development of the entire 5th century and indeed part of the 6th were relevant.

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7. www.britannica.com › place › ancient-GreeceAncient Greek civilization - Sparta, Athens, City-States

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   Jun 17, 2024 · The Spartan tradition in European thought can be traced through the centuries up to modern times, though it has never amounted to a single easily definable set of ideas.

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8. greekreporter.com › 2024/06/18 › sparta-battleSparta: The Battle of Leuctra and Its Decline - GreekReporter.com

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   Jun 18, 2024 · The Spartan army clash with the Thebans at the Leuctra battlefield in 371 BC signified the end of Sparta’s military dominance in ancient Greece and its gradual decline.

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   Why is Sparta so difficult to trace?

   • Despite Sparta’s military prominence among Greek states, which is the primary fact about it, Sparta’s development is especially difficult to trace. That is so partly because there are few Archaic or Classical Spartan inscriptions.

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   How did Sparta develop?

   • It was the Messenian factor above all that determined the peculiar development of Sparta, because it forced Spartans to adjust their institutions to deal with a permanently hostile subject population. Despite Sparta’s military prominence among Greek states, which is the primary fact about it, Sparta’s development is especially difficult to trace.

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   Did Spartans write a history?

   • Even more important, there is very little genuine Spartan history written by Spartans (there was no Spartan Herodotus or Thucydides, though both men were deeply fascinated by Sparta, as indeed were most Greeks). And partly it is so because—a related point—“invented tradition” had been particularly active at Sparta.

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   Was Sparta a kin?

   • This was also the period when Sparta the living legend consciously traded on and exported fantasies about its great past (in the Hellenistic First Book of Maccabees one even finds the idea seriously put forward that the Jews and Spartans were somehow kin).

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10. oxfordre.com › classics › displayXenophon (1), Greek historian | Oxford Classical Dictionary

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    2 days ago · "Xenophon (1), Greek historian" published on by Oxford University Press.