This successor of Cleomenes I and husband of Gorgo responded "come and take them" to a request to surrender arms at a battle where his troops were outflanked thanks to the treachery of Ephialtes, who showed the enemy troops a secret mountain path.
This man came to power after his predecessor allegedly went insane and, despite being put in stocks, took a knife from a slave and mutilated his own legs. This man's wife solved a code sent to him by Demartus by scraping the wax off a tablet and, as a child, convinced her father to not support Aristagoras of Miletus. Simonides commemorated a group led by this man with an epitaph addressed to a (*) "stranger passing by." This successor of Cleomenes I and husband of Gorgo responded "come and take them" to a request to surrender arms at a battle where his troops were outflanked thanks to the treachery of Ephialtes, who showed the enemy troops a secret mountain path. For 10 points, name this Spartan king who died fighting Xerxes's forces at Thermopylae.
This man came to power after his predecessor allegedly went insane and, despite being put in stocks, took a knife from a slave and mutilated his own legs.
Leonidas I [or LeōnÃ­dēs I]