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Died 480 BCE • Thermopylae • Greece • ancient Greece
Title / Office king (490BC-480BC), Sparta
Role In Battle of Thermopylae • Greco-Persian Wars

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Gylippus
Spartan general
Pausanias
Greek military officer
Leotychides
king of Sparta
Agesilaus II; Pharnabazus
Agesilaus II
king of Sparta
Cleomenes III
king of Sparta
Lysander
Greek military leader
Brasidas
Spartan military officer
Agis II
king of Sparta
Archidamus II
king of Sparta
Archidamus III
king of Sparta
Agis III
king of Sparta
Archidamus IV
king of Sparta
Xerxes I
Xerxes I
king of Persia
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Aristides The Just
Aristides The Just
Greek statesman
Agis IV
Agis IV
king of Sparta
Nabis
ruler of Sparta
Cleomenes I
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Archidamus V
king of Sparta
Demaratus, bronze bust; in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
Demaratus
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