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Thermopylae is an example of heroism of free men, defending their homeland and their freedom. During the Persian Wars, the Lokris they conspired with the other Greeks against Xerxes at Thermopylae. This historical monument and the answer "Molὼn take it» of Leonidas, when the Persians demanded the subjugation of the Greeks, it is of global importance and concerns in Greek History all the Greeks who resisted and fell for their homeland fighting the invaders. |
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Thermopylae showed the highest military training of the Spartans with the "Spartan phalanx", as well as the proper exploitation of the terrain.
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The events of the historic Battle of Thermopylae come back to life with new technologies, through a film of 3D digital representation. The Innovative Historical Information Center Thermopylae constitutes one interactive space of historical narration and innovative museum concept. Architecturally, the Center building has the shape of a spearhead facing north. https://www.facebook.com/historicalcenterofthermopylae/?locale=el_GR
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Epitaph with epigram |
Simonides o Keios, after the battle, wrote one of the most famous epigrams. The epigram reads as follows (according to Herodotus): Ὦ out‘, English Lacedaemonians that tῇde we are to them of those ῥημασι convinced. (O stranger, announce to the Lacedaemonians that ego we were buried, obeying their commands.) |
