known child of Cleomenes I, Leonidas' half-brother and King of Sparta (r. 520–490 BC). Gorgo was also the mother of King Pleistarchus, her only son with...

relative. Many women played a significant role in the history of Sparta. Queen Gorgo, heiress to the throne and the wife of Leonidas I, was an influential...

mythology Gorgo (film), a 1961 film, or its protagonist, the fictional giant monster Gorgo Gorgo, Queen of Sparta (6th–5th century BC), queen of Sparta, daughter...

than 300,000 soldiers. As the battle rages, Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) attempts to rally support in Sparta for her husband. The film also features Michael...

men?" "Because we are also the only ones who give birth to men." Gorgo, Queen of Sparta and wife of Leonidas, as quoted by Plutarch Spartan women were famous...

BC; died 11 August 480 BC) was king of the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta. He was the son of king Anaxandridas II and the 17th king of the Agiad dynasty...

women. The name 'Gorgon' is associated with the Ancient Greek adjective gorgós (γοργός), which, of an eye or look, means 'grim, fierce, awesome, dazzling'...

the Agiad King of Sparta from 480 to 458 BC. Pleistarchus was born as a prince, likely the only son of King Leonidas I and Queen Gorgo. His grandparents...

Leon (‹See Tfd›Greek: Λέων) was the 14th Agiad dynasty King of Sparta, ruling from 590 BC to 560 BC. Leon means "lion". The grandson of Leon had a similar...

grossing $337 million worldwide from a $110 million budget. Queen Gorgo of Sparta narrates about the Battle of Marathon, in which King Darius of Persia...

also appears in the sequel 300: Rise of an Empire, where he follows Queen Gorgo into battle and fights alongside her and Themistocles. The three of them...

Brothers Grimm (2005) and the action film 300 (2007), portraying Gorgo, Queen of Sparta, a role she yet again played in 300: Rise of an Empire (2014). She...

Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I. Lasting over the course of three days, it was one of the...

daughter Gorgo warned him not to trust a man who threatened to corrupt him. In 494, a fifty years' peace that had been signed between Sparta and Argos...

Leonidas's departure for battle with the Persians at Thermopylae, Gorgo, Queen of Sparta asked what she should do. He advised her: "Marry a good man and...

Hydarnes, leader of the Persian Immortals Anna Synodinou as Queen Gorgo of Sparta Kieron Moore as Ephialtes of Trachis, farm worker & Greek traitor John...

Agiádai) was one of the two royal families of the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta. They ruled jointly along with the Eurypontid dynasty, possibly from the...

of the two playable leaders for the Greek civilization, the other being Gorgo. In the 2018 video game Assassin's Creed Odyssey Pericles's life as a politician...

cobalt. And circled in the midst of all was the blank-eyed face of the Gorgo (Gorgon) with her stare of horror, and Deimos (Dread) was inscribed upon...

Greek city states, specifically a daughter of a man who had no sons. In Sparta, they were called patrouchoi (πατροῦχοι), as they were in Gortyn. Athenian...

controversial Man of Steel. The obvious rebuttal is that, well, this is Sparta (or at least Athens) so what more should one expect from this kind of score...

farming, and sailing, and historical figures such as Heraclitus, Aristides, Gorgo, and Xerxes. The Chivalry series is Cameron's third historical series, also...

character in Friedrich Hebbel's play Genoveva DMP · 680 681 Gorgo 1909 GZ Gorgon (German: Gorgo) one of the three sisters – Euryale, Stheno, and Medusa –...

Istemkheb Shabaka and his aunt, Qalhata Leonidas, King of Sparta and his half-niece, Gorgo Arybbas of Epirus and his niece, Troas Alexander I of Epirus...

Phoenician woman; three by Tyria; twelve by the naiad Caliadne; six by Gorgo and lastly another six by Hephaestine. According to Hippostratus, Aegyptus...

also joins the rebellion, as Onesilus removes his pro-Persian brother, Gorgos, from the throne of Salamis. After the assassination of Cleander, tyrant...

Makris, Cassopaea, Argos, Keravnia, Phaeacia, Corkyra or Kerkyra (in Doric), Gorgo or Gorgyra and much later the medieval names Corypho or Corfoi, because...

also permitted there. One example is King Leonidas I of Sparta, who married his half-niece Gorgo. A Greek woman who became epikleros, or heiress with no...

Megaris Eusebius 15 § 720 BC Dolichos Akanthos Sparta Eusebius 16 § 716 BC Stadion Pythagoras Sparta Eusebius 17 § 712 BC Stadion Polos Epidauros Eusebius...

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