Year 480 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vibulanus and Cincinnatus (or, less frequently, year 274 Ab urbe condita).

The Battle of Thermopylae () [14] was fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I. Lasting …

2025年3月21日 · The Battle of Thermopylae was fought in central Greece at the mountain pass of Thermopylae in 480 BCE during the Persian Wars. After three days resisting the much larger …

The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The invasion was a direct, if …

2013年4月16日 · Thermopylae is a mountain pass near the sea in northern Greece which was the site of several battles in antiquity, the most famous being that between Persians and Greeks in …

2024年4月23日 · In 480 BCE, two great powers met near a small town in Sicily to decide the fate of the Mediterranean. Since the fall of Phoenician Tyre, the Mediterranean, once …

2019年3月12日 · The Battle of Thermopylae took place at the end of August/beginning of September in 480 BCE. Leonidas, one of the Spartan kings at the time (Sparta always had …

There, in August 480 bce, during the second Persian invasion of Greece, a small Greek force under the Spartan king Leonidas defended Attica and Boeotia against the southward advance …

2024年5月26日 · In 480 BCE, a small force of Greek warriors, led by the Spartan King Leonidas, faced off against the mighty Persian army at the narrow pass of Thermopylae in central …

Thermopylae (Θερμοπύλαι; "Hot Gates"): small pass in Greece, site of several battles, of which the Spartan defeat against the Persian invaders in 480 is the most famous. After careful …