Leadership

• Leonidas (died -480)

  King of the Greek city-state of Sparta in the fifth century B.C. Considered the archetype of martial bravery.

  • He and his royal guard of 300 fought to the last man to hold up the advance of an immense Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae, giving the other Greeks time to prepare a defense (see list of Miscellaneous Military Leaders)