Spartan Armor

[hoplite14gr]

Dear Dan, most people are not knowledge seekers like you. They are lazy and simply copy others so they copy their mistakes too.

The battle of Thermopylae is described Herodotus Strabo and Pausanias.
The anecdotes about persons are given by Plutarch's "Lakonian sayings".

Dienekes is NOT clearly described as an officer. Rank it is assumed since he had right of response to the enemy herald. This is highly speculative though. All possible ranks attributed to him are speculative too.

B. Lawsons point on helmets is valid too

There were 4 known battles in Thermopylae:
480 B.C. Greeks vs Persians
279 B.C. Greeks vs Galatians
191 B.C. Greeks vs Romans
1941 A.D. British-Greeks vs Germans.

Two possible medieval battles are not well documented

Historicity of Trojan War here:
http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/war.htm
Kind regards