Leonidas: King of Sparta, Hero of Thermopylae

Dr Andrew Bayliss joins Tristan Hughes to strip away the mythology and get at the real Leonidas — Spartan dynastic politics, the Agiad royal house, and then the actual military reality of the Thermopylae stand in 480 BC. At over an hour with a proper specialist, this goes well beyond the '300' version and into the command decisions, terrain, and Greek defensive strategy that made the pass matter. One of the better Thermopylae treatments in podcast form.