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A famous battle in 480 BC
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thermopylae
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Thermopylae is a mountain passage in central Greece. Thermopylae may also refer to: Thermopylae (clipper) , an extreme composite clipper ship built 1868 Thermopylae (poem) , a poem written by the Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy , Royal Navy submarine launched ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
narrow land passage along the Malian Gulf in ancient Greece, from Greek thermos "hot" (see thermal ) + pylai , plural of pyle "gate; mountain pass, entrance into a region" (see pylon ). In reference to nearby hot sulfur springs. Often simply hai pylai "the ...
Usage examples of thermopylae.
Another party, which seemed a multitude in the eyes of the Romans, penetrated, without opposition, from the Straits of Thermopylae to the Isthmus of Corinth.
From here, less than a century before, the legendary Sword King had set off for the Pass of Thermopylae with 300 warriors and 700 helots.
Why did the King slain at Thermopylae appear on the monument to Plataea?
He died more than a century ago, defending the pass of Thermopylae against the Persian invaders.
The men with him are the heroes who died at Thermopylae and they are risking eternity for you, Parmenion.
Leonidas and his Three Hundred had marched to Thermopylae to the sound of flutes.
Running up and down Thermopylae Point with hand-weights fifteen times every morning, then back home through the streets before the traffic started.
Plataia was the site of a major Spartan victory over Persia, the place where Thermopylae was avenged, but it was also a city: an Athenian ally, under the protection of Athens.
That was why Thermopylae called for them to center their defense on GeneCorp's facility, where he couldn't use heavy weapons to support his ground elements without destroying the very data he'd come to steal.
They will be given orders to hold on like the Spartans at Thermopylae and, by and large, much the same fate will befall them.
The remaining Thermopylae began to point skyward as the five-inch turrets followed.
The Boeotians and the States in the interior of Greece reported that the Aetolians had closed the pass of Thermopylae at its narrowest part with a fosse and rampart to prevent him from carrying succour to the cities of his allies.
For the Euripus is the key to Greece by sea as the pass of Thermopylae is by land.
To one approaching Thaumaci from the south by Thermopylae and round the Malian Gulf and through the country of Lamia, the place stands out on a height overlooking what they call Thessalia Coele.