However, in Double Jeopardy!, Schneider gained the lead when she correctly answered the Daily Double. “The forces of Leonidas & Xerxes faced off at this 480 B.C. Battle,” the question read as ...

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 5th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

Xerxes had spent years planning his invasion ... for the rest of the Greek allies to gather their forces. Led by King Leonidas, the Spartans heroically held the Persians at bay for nearly a ...

Supposedly, Xerxes himself actually gave the order for the Spartans to lay down their weapons (as opposed to one of his vassals). Leonidas responded (in ancient Doric Greek) “Molon labe,” a ...

Xerxes waited for 10 days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw but left with no options he pushed forward. After 3 days of battle all the Greeks were killed. The Spartan defeat was not the ...

Xerxes waited for 10 days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw but left with no options he pushed forward. After 3 days of battle all the Greeks were killed. The Spartan defeat was not the ...