Leontiades (Thermopylae)
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Leontiades (Thermopylae)
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Leontiades was the commander of the 400-man Theban contingent of the Greek army at the Battle of Thermopylae. Little was recorded about his life before or after the battle, but according to Herodotus he was the son of Eurymachus, and also the father of another Eurymachus who would play a leading role at the much later Siege of Plataea. The Boeotian-Greek city of Thebes had paid tokens of submission to a herald of the Persian King Xerxes while his army was still crossing through Macedon toward Gr
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Early 5th-century BC Theban commander
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2024-04-05T05:11:54Z
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