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Thermopylae
The narrow pass in central Greece where three hundred Spartans under Leonidas held back Xerxes' army (480 BC); Seneca's emblem of the few staying the many.
Reading notes
- On Benefits §6.31.6 Thermopylae
The narrow pass where Leonidas' three hundred Spartans held Xerxes' army (480 BC); Seneca's emblem of the few staying the many.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §10.82.20 Thermopylae
The narrow pass in Greece where Leonidas and three hundred Spartans died holding off Xerxes' host (480 BC) --- the supreme example of men who chose a post that was to be their grave.