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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.

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On Benefits philosophy · 1 mention
Moral Letters to Lucilius philosophy · 1 mention

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