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The epigram for the 300 Spartans who died at Thermopylae is a strong candidate for most famous epigram of all time. As far as most people are concerned, it was composed by the poet Simonides of Ceos. Today we’re looking at why that attribution is wrong.
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The Last Stance at Thermopylae “Go tell the Spartans, you who read: We took their orders and here lie dead.” (Herodotus, 495) The third citation laconically encapsulates honor and duty to a higher cause no matter the cost and celebrates a set of values that nurtured a people who, on their last night alive chose to either coiffe their hair ...
Before his death in 360 BC, Sparta had spent the previous thirty years squandering its reputation in fruitless foreign adventurism, alienating those closest to home (see Cartledge (1987) 77–98), but it also reached its greatest extent and influence.
The Spartan commander Astyochos receives a letter from the Athenian general Phrynichos, only to share it with Phrynichos’ enemy Alcibiades and the Persian Tissaphernes.77 In the detailed story of the downfall of the regent Pausanias, a private letter read by a messenger (to be put to death upon delivery) betrays Pausanias’ traitorous ...
