can say that the battle of Thermopylae was one of those rare moments in history that marked a definitive and unquestionable way the future of humanity.
The place name means "hot gates", and refers to the hot springs that even today are in the area.
According to legend, Heracles being found near death, and feeling the warmth on your skin that caused the robe of the centaur Nessus, was thrown into a river near Trachis (near Thermopylae), to extinguish the fire that burned, drowned, but the river kept its heat.
By strange coincidence, the Spartans, who considered themselves descendants of Heracles, or Herakles, also died there, as the hero, and significant is the name of their king Leonidas, the lion as a symbol of royalty- was the animal that dominated Heracles in one of his works.
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