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The long afterlife of Thermopylae, how Sparta's last stand echoed through Greece, Rome, and Alexander's conquests
Centuries after the last Spartan fell at the Hot Gates, the legend of the 300 continued to shape the ancient world, invoked by Alexander the Great, immortalized by Herodotus, and visited by Roman ...
Roman Italy, and it is unknown whether they were native—perhaps descendants of the Umbrians—or came from Greek ...
Athens and Sparta were, for most of antiquity, the two dominant cities of Greece. This was followed by a brief period of ...
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