In the Thermopylae gorge, the heroic defeat that nature has not been able to erase
We visit with archaeologist Petros Kounuklas the scene of the legendary battle, “a symbol of moral victory and self-sacrifice to protect the common good.”
September 10, 480 BC, on the hill of Kolonos, at the middle entrance of the gorge thermopyles And, after two days of bloody fighting with significant casualties among the Persian ranks, an unexpected turn of events – the previous…
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