Herodotus: Father Of History, Father Of Lies
When the future kings of Sparta had been typically exempt from the agoge, the rigorous education and martial training program that all male citizens of the city have been subjected to, Leonidas underwent it just the identical, not being the initial successor to his father’s throne. Nine years into his reign, Greece was attacked by the Persian emperor Xerxes I as a delayed response to the defeat in the ‘First Persian War’ in 490 BC. A military alliance identified as…