Leonidas Flashcards
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Ruled from
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490BC-480BC
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Role in spartan
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One of the kings
While most Spartans were delayed by the Carnea festival
He marched to Thermopylae with his elite 300
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Plutarch claims about Lenoidas’s idea of what was going to happen
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When he was asked whether he was planning on doing anything other than blocking the passes
He replied that he had not because he intended to die with the Greeks
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Plutarch claims about his letter from Xerxes
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Xerxes asked if he would side with him and become the monarch of Greece
Leonidas replied “if you understood what is honourable in life, you would avoid lusting after what belongs to others. For me it is better to die for Greece than to be monarch of my race”
