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Leonidas d.c.480BC
King of Sparta

He succeeded his half-brother, Cleomenes I (491BC). When the Persian king Xerxes I approached with a large army, Leonidas opposed him at the narrow pass of Thermopylae (480) with his 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians, and there all of them died heroically.