The Last Stand

[hoplite14gr]

Please have a look in the relevant threads.
We do mot know what happened in Annopaea for starters.
Leonidas death was a critical point affecting the moral of the Greeks.
Probably at that time the Thebans surrendered.
Because of the narrowness the phalanx would have been unusually deep.
So it was eroded slowly and it must have been a brutal an bloody bussiness.
The last survivors must have been exausted from fatigue and many small bleeding wounds. Some might have collapsed and were disp[atched as they fell while unable to defend themselves.

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