Leonidas sculpture, Archaeological Museum of Sparta, Sparta

Sculpture of a hoplite, thought to be Leonidas I, king of Sparta, who led the Spartans in the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC during the Persian wars, wearing a plumed Spartan helmet, 5th century BC, in the Archaeological Museum of Sparta, Laconia, Greece. Sparta was a powerful military city-state throughout the Greek ancient and classical periods, and was later inhabited by the Romans and Byzantines. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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