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Thermopylae
Thermopylae A pass in Greece, about 200 km (120 miles) north-west of Athens, originally narrow but now much widened by the recession of the sea. It was the scene of the heroic defence (480 BC) against the Persian army of Xerxes by 6000 Greeks including 300 Spartans under their commander Leonidas.
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Classic spin.(Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World)(Book review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Paul Cartledge Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World. Overlook Press, 376 pages, $30 Thermopylae is legendary, its story, is simple...Plataea, Greece was free. The reality of Thermopylae was different. The Spartans did not...
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Paul Cartledge: East vs. West at Thermopylae.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Military History; 3/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...considers the Spartans' "last stand" at Thermopylae a pivotal clash of East vs. West. In his latest book, Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World...continues to resonate in world history. Thermopylae has been thoroughly covered, so why...
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Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Thermopylae The Battle that Changed the World Paul...comprehend its ideals and rituals. In Thermopylae he expands on these but the focus of...on the famous defence of the pass of Thermopylae in 480 BC against a massive Persian...
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FOR THE LOVE OF COUNTRY.(battle of Thermopylae )
Magazine article from: Calliope; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...came at a mountain pass called Thermopylae, deep within the Greek heartland...its location, the battle of Thermopylae became a great source of pride...At the far eastern end lies Thermopylae (which means "hot gates...
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Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae. By Edward T. Gotham Jr. The Clifton...In Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae, Edward T. Gotham Jr. provides a...engagement as "The Confederacy's Thermopylae," an allusion to the famous battle...
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Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae. By Edward T. Cotham Jr. The Clifton...In Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae, Edward T. Cotham Jr. provides a...engagement as "The Confederacy's Thermopylae," an allusion to the famous battle...
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How the West was lost - and won ; MILITARY HISTORY ++ Thermopylae: The battle that changed the world By Paul Cartledge MACMILLAN [pound]20
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 11/19/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...their positions at the Hot Gates ("Thermopylae" in Greek) and fought to the death...created Hiawatha... The defeat at Thermopylae - and it was a total wipe-out, but...overview of the later mythologising of Thermopylae is interesting, there might have been...
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From Here to Thermopylae; In Fred Zinnemann's Sure Hands, '300' Would Have Cut a Deeper, Truer Swath
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/25/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...driven re-creation of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. between a gazillion Persian...brilliant film -- let's call it "Thermopylae" to "300," you notice certain things...time on the company boxing team. In "Thermopylae," as opposed to "300," we learn...
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A beautifully-crafted model of the ship Thermopylae lay neglected and out of sight in the cellar of a museum. . . until two Brighouse enthusiasts turned detective. SOPHIE SEDDON reports.
Newspaper article from: Brighouse Echo (Brighouse, England); 11/19/2006; 700+ words
; ...Gallery. The model ship - a copy of the 'Thermopylae' - was created by the late Brighouse...they are better than a cellar?" The 'Thermopylae' was a famous British tea clipper built...was named after the Greek 'Battle of Thermopylae' and created her first record on her...
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The meaning of 300: in the hands of filmmakers, the legendary Spartan stand at Thermopylae becomes pro-war political propaganda in the new film 300.
Magazine article from: The New American; 4/2/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Persian army at the "hot gates" of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., a battle of unparalleled...for all of Western civilization--Thermopylae was "the battle that changed the world...history have the epoch-making events at Thermopylae weighed so heavily as they do today...
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Thermopylae
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Thermopylae, a famous British tea clipper built...the only ship seriously to contest the Thermopylae 's claim to be the fastest sailing...the opening of the Suez Canal , the Thermopylae continued in the Australian wool trade...
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Cutty Sark
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...built expressly as a challenge to the great British clipper Thermopylae and the two ships were almost identical in size, with a...107 days. Only once did she race home in company with the Thermopylae , but on that occasion lost her rudder during heavy weather...
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David, Jacques-Louis (1748–1825)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...between the Romans and the Sabines. Its pendant, Leonidas at Thermopylae (1814), represents the king of Sparta and his private...men about to give up their lives by defending the pass at Thermopylae against the vast Persian army, thereby ensuring victory...
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Treachery
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...x2013; 20] Ephialtes Greek betrayer of Spartans at Thermopylae. [Gk. Hist.: Kravitz, 89] Ganelon the Judas among...murder Alonso and Gonzalo. [Br. Lit.: The Tempest ] Thermopylae shown the back door, Persians destroyed Spartans (480 B...
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Thespiae
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...near Mt. Helicon (now Elikón) and SW of Thebes. The Thespians fought (479 BC) against the Persians at Thermopylae and Plataea. They joined (after 382 BC) the Spartans against their rivals, the Thebans. The famous statue of Eros by...
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