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Liability for military service, and ephebic service, seems to have been practically universal. Lysias informs us (On the Refusal of a Pension 24.13) that in Athens an invalid was entitled to draw a pension of one obol a day.
The Second Battle of Thermopylae, fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian army of Xerxes and the Greek coalition led by the Spartan king Leonidas, is legendary. Much less well known, however, are the 26 other combat actions fought in and around the pass, which date from before 480 BC all the way up to World War II.
I’ve been asked why I wrote The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy. Why did I think it was so important to target the myth that the Spartans were history’s greatest warriors?
