Leonidas
died 480 b.c., Greek hero: king of Sparta 489?–480.
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Leonidas allegedly spoke those newly prominent words in the narrow pass of Thermopylae, 2,500 years ago this month.
This Is the Gun-Loving Right’s Favorite Greek Taunt | James Romm | September 27, 2021 | The Daily BeastLater again, he turned to the more ancient Greeks, and the result 193 was the most academic of his pictures, his “Leonidas.”
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard MutherLeonidas, to the threat of the Persians that their forest of arrows would darken the sun.
The act of Leonidas satisfies the moral sense, the reason; it enraptures the aesthetical sense, the imagination.
The Aesthetical Essays | Friedrich SchillerLeonidas, successor to Pimen in the archiepiscopate of Novgorod, was sewn up in a bear-skin and worried to death by hounds.
The Rise of the Russian Empire | Hector H. Munro
In Rajistan every small kingdom had its Thermopylae, and every little town has produced its Leonidas.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
British Dictionary definitions for Leonidas
/ (lɪˈɒnɪˌdæs) /
died 480 bc, king of Sparta (?490–480), hero of the Battle of Thermopylae, in which he was killed by the Persians under Xerxes
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