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Statue of Leonidas at Sparta (placed in 1969) In 1969, another bronze statue of king Leonidas, again made by Vasos Falireas, was erected in downtown Sparta. It was designed in 1966, [ 7 ] the inscription dated 1968, [ 8 ] installed in 1969 [ 7 ] and an unveiling ceremony was held in 1970. [ 7 ]
It features a bronze statue of Leonidas. A sign, under the statue, reads simply: "Μολὼν λαβέ" ("Come and take them!"—as in answer to Xerxes' demand that the Greeks give up their weapons). The metope below depicts battle scenes. The two marble statues on the left and the right of the monument represent, respectively, the river ...
Leonidas I (/ l i ə ˈ n aɪ d ə s,-d æ s /; Ancient Greek: Λεωνίδας, Leōnídas; born c. 540 BC; died 11 August 480 BC) was king of the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta. He was the son of king Anaxandridas II and the 17th king of the Agiad dynasty, a Spartan royal house which claimed descent from the mythical demigod Heracles.
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org إسبرطة (اليونان) Usage on ia.wikipedia.org Sparta; Usage on simple.wikipedia.org
Leonidas, King of Sparta, who defeated the Persians at Thermopylae (it is often misidentified as a Roman gladiator) commemorates the excavation of the Music Concourse in 1893. The northern end of the Concourse after the most recent renovations, as seen from the de Young Museum in 2009.
Cleomenes was born in Sparta to the future Agiad king Leonidas II and his wife Cratesicleia. The exact year of Cleomenes' birth is unknown but historian Peter Green puts it between 265 BC and 260 BC.
Sparta is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States, [5] along the La Crosse River. The population was 10,025 at the 2020 census . History
The A1 motorway linking Athens and Thessaloniki now follows the ancient shoreline and thus splits the pass; a modern-day monument to King Leonidas I of Sparta is situated on the east side of the highway, directly across the road from the hill where Simonides' epitaph to the fallen is engraved in stone at the top.