The Immortals, led by Hydarnes, were able to outflank the defenders at this battle when they were shown an alternate route by Ephialtes; the result of this battle caused Themistocles to end the contemporaneous Battle of Artemisium.
W. Kendrick Pritchett and Major General Thomas Gordon suggested that one geographic feature key to this battle began at the Chalkomata Spring, while A.R. Burn argued that that same feature began at the Damasta Spur. A 1980 paper by Paul Wallace argues that that feature used during this battle began at Vardates, and not at the other candidates such as the Asopos Gorge. That feature runs through Nevropolis on the peak of Mt. Kallidromos. During this battle, the rustling of oak leaves alerted a Phocian force to the enemy presence, but they chose to hold a nearby hill that blocked the way to Phocis instead of the Anopaia path. That decision during this Â led to 700 Thespians joining a smaller force whose leader had received a prophecy from the Delphic oracle that a descendant of Heracles must die. The Immortals, led by Hydarnes, were able to outflank the defenders at this battle when they were shown an alternate route by Ephialtes; the result of this battle caused Themistocles to end the contemporaneous Battle of Artemisium. For 10 points, name this battle in which a narrow path on the Malian Gulf was by briefly held against Xerxes I by Leonidas of Sparta.
W. Kendrick Pritchett and Major General Thomas Gordon suggested that one geographic feature key to this battle began at the Chalkomata Spring, while A.R. Burn argued that that same feature began at the Damasta Spur.
Battle of Thermopylae [or Mache ton Thermopylon; prompt on "hot gates"]