1. The Battle of Thermopylae.
THE GATES OF
FIRE
The Battle of Thermopylae.

2. The Greek World 480 BC
ATHENS
SPARTA

3. THE PERSIAN EMPIRE

4. XERXES the Great.
The King of Kings.

5. MARATHON 490 BC

6. Hoplites

8. The Persian Army.

9. THERMOPYLAE

10. Thermopylae ‘The Gates of Fire’

11. The Greeks 300 Spartans. 400 Corinthians. 400 Thebans. 1000 Phocians.
3100 others
= 5200 Greeks.

12. Leonidas, King of Sparta

13. 5200 VS

14. 1: 288

15. DAY 1

16. DAY 2

18. 300 Spartans.
700 Thespians.
400 Thebans.
=1400.
1: 1071

20. DAY 3

28. Spartan memorial, Thermopylae

29. Leonidas memorial, Sparta.

30. HERODOTUS

31. ‘Stranger- go tell the Spartans: We did our duty, and here we lie’

32. A bully is nothing everywhere. AESCHYLUS 431 BC
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke.