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Greece - Sparta - Leonidas Statue

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Greece - Sparta - Leonidas Statue

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"In August 480 BC, Leonidas went out to meet Xerxes' army at Thermopylae with a small force of 300 men, where he was joined by forces from other Greek city-states, who put themselves under his command to form an army of 14,000 strong."

"The total force assembled for the defense of the pass of Thermopylae. They faced a Persian army who had invaded from the north of Greece under Xerxes I."

"Herodotus stated that this army consisted of over two million men; modern scholars consider this to be an exaggeration and give estimates ranging from 50,000 to 200,000.
Xerxes waited four days to attack, hoping the Greeks would disperse. Finally, on the fifth day the Persians attacked. Leonidas and his men repulsed the Persians' frontal attacks for the fifth and sixth days, killing roughly 20,000 of the enemy troops and losing about 2,500 of their own. The Persian elite unit known to the Greeks as "the Immortals" was held back, and two of Xerxes' brothers (Abrocomes and Hyperanthes) died in battle. On the seventh day (August 11), a Malian Greek traitor named Ephialtes led the Persian general Hydarnes by a mountain track to the rear of the Greeks. At that point Leonidas sent away all Greek troops and remained in the pass with his 300 Spartans, 900 Helots, and 700 Thespians who refused to leave."

"Of the small Greek force, attacked from both sides, all were killed except for the Thebans, who surrendered. Leonidas was killed, but the Spartans retrieved his body and protected it."

Three shots (-2,0,2) processed in Photomatix and Photoshop
Image size
3086x3086px 8.71 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 7D
Shutter Speed
1/800 second
Aperture
F/4.0
Focal Length
13 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Oct 23, 2012, 5:24:26 PM
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