The Twitter Herodotus

7.221 A proof of this is that Leonidas ordered the prophet Megistias to leave. Megistias refused to go, but he did send his son home.

7.222 The rest of the allies went home, but Leonidas made the Thebans stay, against their will, and the Thespians volunteered to do so.

7.223 Xerxes attacked again on the 3rd day and the Greeks, knowing they would die, fought in a frenzy, with no regard for their lives.

7.224 Leonidas fell in the fight & other famous Spartans: I've learned the names of the 300 who died with him. Two sons of Darius also died.

7.225 When the Persians from the path arrived, the Greeks retreated to a hill. Surrounded, they fought w/daggers & with their hands & teeth.

7.226 They say Dieneces was the bravest Greek. Told the Persians' arrows would darken the sky, he rejoiced that they'd fight in the shade.

7.227 Dieneces said other cool stuff too. After him, 2 Spartan brothers were bravest, Alpheus & Maron. The bravest Thespian was Dithyrambus.

7.228 Epitaphs later commemorated the Greek dead, e.g.: Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

7.229 There's a story that Leonidas released two injured men from service. Eurytus chose to stay & died fighting, and Aristodemus went home.

7.230 Others say Aristodemus was serving as a messenger: he dallied on the way back to the army & in that way avoided dying at Thermopylae.