embodied in Leonidas, hero of Thermopylae, commemorated here in a statue in the modern city of Sparta in Greece. Despite their frightening reputation, the Spartan army was very restrained when it ...

Myke Cole - Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta ... Leonidas is celebrated for supposedly making. An 1888 illustration shows a bust of the ancient Greek ...