Leonidas I Of Sparta
But the fantastic defense by the Spartans could not be hidden from history. The deaths of Leonidas and his fellow Spartans significantly lifted Greek morale. And the crucial period that the Spartans had held up the Persian advance gave time for the Athenian Greek fleet to wreak havoc on the Persian navy and sooner or see this later led to the defeat of the Persian threat. So, by providing his life so dearly at Thermopylae, Leonidas became the savior of…