Battle of Thermopylae
battle · 480 BC
Battle of Thermopylae, a battle recorded 480 BC: its site mapped, cited to 2 sources, on an interactive historical map you can move through time.
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At a glance
- Kind
- battle
- Date
- August 480 BC
- War
- Greco-Persian Wars
- Side 1
- Greek city-states — led by Leonidas I
- Side 2
- Achaemenid Empire — led by Xerxes I
- Result
- Persian victory
Recorded boundaries
| Period | Control | Confidence | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 480 BC | — | high confidence | no observation date recorded | — |
Each row is a snapshot the source recorded, not a continuous history. The period between two observations is an inference this atlas shows rather than hides.
Sources
- Herodotus; translated by A. D. Godley, The Histories, (1920)
- Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century, (2007)