Thermopylae is a mountain pass near the sea in northern Greece which was the site of several battles in antiquity, the most famous being that between Persians and Greeks in August 480 BCE. https://www.worldhistory.org/thermopylae/ #History #GorgoofSparta #GreekWarfare #Hoplite

Spartan women had more rights and enjoyed greater autonomy than women in any other Greek city-state of the Classical Period (5th-4th centuries BCE). https://www.worldhistory.org/article/123/spartan-women/ #History #GorgoofSparta #LeonidasI #Sparta

Women in ancient Greece, outside of Sparta, had almost no rights and no political or legal power. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/737/ten-noble-and-notorious-women-of-ancient-greece/ #History #Argos #AspasiaofMiletus #GorgoofSparta

Gorgo was the queen of the Greek city-state of Sparta, daughter of the king Cleomenes (r. 520-490 BCE), wife of King Leonidas (r. 490-480 BCE), and mother of King Pleistarchus (r. 480-458 BCE). Her birth and death dates are unclear as women were not considered as important as men to the historians who recorded her time.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Gorgo_of_Sparta/ #GorgoofSparta #LeonidasI #Sparta