The mortal sacrifice made by Spartan king Leonidas and his 300 elite troops at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. was described in ... The statue was found at Sparta’s sanctuary of Athena ...

Pausanias, the Spartan King Who Defeated the Persians at Plataea and Died Entombed by His Own Fellow Citizens by Jorge Álvarez March 7, 2025 March 7, 2025. ... Sparta placed two bronze statues of ...