The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 03
CHAPTER XIX
THERMOPYLÆ (480 B.C.) 320
The famous story as told by Herodotus, 320. Leonidas and his allies, 321. Xerxes assails the pass, 323. The treachery of Ephialtes, 323. The final assault, 325. Discrepant accounts of the death of Leonidas, 327. After Thermopylæ, 327.