Pugna ad Thermopylas (480 a.C.n.)
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Pugna ad Thermopylas[8] verisimiliter circa diem 11 Augusti anno 480 a.C.n. commissa est, cum Xerxes rex Persarum Graeciam invaderet.
| Pugna ad themopylas | |||||||||
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| Part of Bella Graeco-Persica | |||||||||
.PNG) Leonidas I ad Thermopylas (a Iacobo Ludovico David pictus, 1814) |
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| Belligerentes | |||||||||
| Graecia antiqua | Imperium Achaemenidarum | ||||||||
| Imperatores et duces | |||||||||
| Rex Leonidas I, Demophilus | Rex Xerxes I, Mardonius, Hydarnes II |
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| Vires | |||||||||
| Total 5,200+ (Herodotus) 7,400+ (Diodorus) 11,200 (Pausanias) 7,000–20,000 (modern est.)[3][4] | 70,000–300,000 (modern est.) 2,500,000 (Herodotus)[5] |
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| Casus | |||||||||
| 4,000 (Herodotus)[6] | ~20,000 (Herodotus)[7] | ||||||||
Tropaeum hoc loco erectum epigrammate Simonidis ornatum esse traditur:
Graece: Ὦ ξεῖν᾿, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
Latine: Dic hospes Spartae nos te hic vidisse iacentes,
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Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Pugnam ad Thermopylas spectant. |
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