Sparta: Where Heroines Outshine Their Valiant Heroes

7 lessons and why pacifists must read Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire

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Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire — The Epic Battle of Thermopylae is a historical fiction that retells the world changing battle between Persia, led by king Xerxes I, and the Greek city states, led by Sparta under their king, Leonidas I.