The Telegraph
Story by Charles Spencer • 4h ago
Pelopidas and the Sacred Band freeing Thebes - Alamy© Alamy
"...Perhaps the most famous such unit were the hippeis – the Spartan knights who, as celebrated in print and celluloid ever since, formed ‘the 300’ who fought to the last man against hundreds of thousands of Persian soldiers, at Thermopylae, in 480 BC..."
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GODDAMN HIPPEIS
GODDAMN HIPPEIS