Dienekes
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Dienekes or Dieneces (, from διηνεκής, Doric Greek: διανεκής ) was a Spartan soldier who fought and died at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. He was acclaimed the bravest of all the Greeks who fought in that battle. Herodotus (7.226) related the following anecdote about Dienekes:
Key facts
- Military person.name
- Dieneces
- Military person.native_name
- Διηνέκης
- Military person.native_name_lang
- Gr
- Military person.death_date
- 480 BC
- Military person.birth_place
- Sparta
- Military person.death_place
- Thermopylae
- Military person.placeofburial
- Kolonos Hill
- Military person.allegiance
- Sparta
- Military person.rank
- Commander
- Military person.unit
- 300 Royal Guard
- Military person.battles
- Battle of Thermopylae
- Military person.awards
- Numerous
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sparta
- Place of birth
- Sparta
- Place of death
- Thermopylae
- Occupation
- warrior
- Conflict
- Battle of Thermopylae
- Military rank
- commander
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- date of death
- 0480-01-01
- time period
- classical antiquity
- name in native language
- Διηνέκης
- date of birth
- 0600-00-00
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Dienekes or Dieneces (, from διηνεκής, Doric Greek: διανεκής ) was a Spartan soldier who fought and died at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. He was acclaimed the bravest of all the Greeks who fought in that battle. Herodotus (7.226) related the following anecdote about Dienekes:
Herodotus also mentions that Dienekes said many other similar things which made him unforgotten.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dienekes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.