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King Leonidas of Sparta was 60 years old at the Battle of Thermopylae.
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After Spartan king Leonidas broke diplomatic custom / rules of hospitality by killing the emissaries sent by the Persian king Darius I, the latter refused to retaliate by killing two Spartan nobles in his power, stating that such actions would "wreak havoc of all human law".
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The Spartans actually had two kings who ruled them simultaneously. Besides a king from the Agiad Dynasty, there was also a king from the Eurypontid Dynasty, which was named for an early ninth century king named Eurypon.
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Leonidas was a member of the Agiad Dynasty, named for the late tenth century Spartan king, Agis I.
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Leonidas" marriage to Gorgo was politically shrewd. It placed him closer to his half-brother and king and later paved the way for him to become king.
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Leonidas was probably born around the year 540 BC and became king when he was around fifty-years-old.
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The Persian King Xerxes had Leonidas body desecrated after the battle. It would be forty years before his remains were returned to the Greeks.
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In 480 BC, King Xerxes of Persia demanded the surrender of the Spartans during the battle of Thermopylae. He promised to show them mercy if they surrendered their weapons. The Spartan Leader, King Leonidas I, responded "Molon labe" - "Come and take them."
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The rite of passage for King Leonidas was not to kill a wolf, but instead to murder a slave without being caught.
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After the Battle of Thermopylae, When the body of King Leonidas was recovered by the Persians, Xerxes, in a rage against Leonidas, ordered that the head be cut off and the body crucified
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The Greek word for nightmare is Ephialtes, after the Spartan that betrayed King Leonidas during the Battle of Thermopylae, a history made popular by Frank Miller's 1998 comic book miniseries 300 and the 2006 film adaptation of the same name
