THE GATES OF
The Battle of Thermopylae.
FIRE
ATHENS
SPARTA
The Greek World 480 BC
THE PERSIAN EMPIRE
XERXES the Great.The King of Kings.
MARATHON 490 BC
Hoplites
The Persian Army. 1 500 000
THERMOPYLAE
Thermopylae‘The Gates of
Fire’
The Greeks300 Spartans.
400 Corinthians.
400 Thebans.
1000 Phocians.
3100 others
= 5200 Greeks.
Leonidas, King of Sparta
5200
1 500 000
VS
1: 288
DAY 1
DAY 2
300 Spartans.
700 Thespians.
400 Thebans.
=1400.1: 1071
DAY 3
Spartan memorial, Thermopylae
Leonidas memorial, Sparta.
HERODOTUS
‘Stranger- go tell the Spartans: We did our duty, and here we lie’
A bully is nothing everywhere.
AESCHYLUS 431 BC
The only thing necessary for the
triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing.Edmund Burke.
