His parents were King Philip II of Macedon and Olympias of Epirus, the daughter of Neoptolemus I, the king of Epirus. In his early years, Alexander was raised by his nurse and was tutored by the strict Leonidas of Epirus, a relative of his mother. He was raised in the manner of ...
King Leonidas of Sparta led an alliance of Greek city-states to hold a narrow mountain passage called Thermoplyae against the massive Persian military in the Battle of Thermoplyae in 480 B.C. The Spartan king had an army of 7,100 men to fight an estimated 200,000 Persian troops. Leonida...
Leonidas I was king of Sparta from 489 BC to 480 BC. He was the 17th of the Agiad line that claimed their mythological descent from Heracles the demigod and Cadmus. Leoniadas I succeeded his half-brother king Cleomenes to the throne. The story of his birth was very interesting. His moth...
Leonidas Polk's invasion of Kentucky enraged the citizens who previously had declared neutrality in the war, turning that state against the Confederacy. Nashville, Tennessee fell to the Union early in 1862. Most of the Mississippi was opened with the taking of Island No. 10 and New Madrid, ...
Also Known As Leotychidas Born c.545 BCE Died c.469 BCE Title / Office king (491BC-469BC), Sparta Role In Greco-Persian WarsRelated Biographies Geórgios Kondílis Greek general Lysander Greek military leader Pausanias Greek military officer Leonidas king of Sparta Aristides The Just Greek...
10 Things You Need to Know About the Hamilton-Burr Duel, According toHamilton’s Burr ContentsAsk the Chatbot a Question Lon ChaneyLon Chaney, c. 1925. American actor Print Also known as: Leonidas Frank Chaney Written and fact-checked by ...
Given the urgency because of the large Persian army marching on Greece it was deemed that there was ample reason to still go into battle. King Leonidas I of Sparta was the chosen leader and he took to the Oracle to find out what would happen in battle, the Oracle advised that he would...
A“golden-green leaf thrown into the Sea” and a land of “wild weather and volcanoes,” in the words of the Greek Cypriot poet Leonidas Malenis, Cypruscomprisestall mountains, fertile valleys, and wide beaches. Settled for more than 10 millennia, Cyprus stands at a cultural, linguistic, an...
while Athens and Sparta led the resistance with a number of other city-states behind them. Before invading, Xerxes implored the Spartan king Leonidas to surrender his arms. Leonidas famously replied, “Come and take them” (“Molon labe”). Xerxes intended to do just that and thus moved towa...
In 2006 Butler became an international star with his performance in300as the Spartan warrior KingLeonidas, whose 300 warriors held off the vast Persian army at theBattle of Thermopylae. The highly stylized film was an unexpected box-office hit. Refusing to be typecast by his success, Butler swi...