Reign of Leonidas I
489 BCE–480 BCE* · Event
Agiad king of Sparta whose stand at Thermopylae with three hundred Spartiates became the model of a fighting retreat.
On these timelines: Ancient Greece, Master, Greco-Persian Wars
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