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Eurytus (2)Eurytos

Eurytus was a Spartan soldier and accompanied the king, Leonidas, to the narrow pass at Thermopylae to await the invading Persian army; the three hundred Spartans faced perhaps as many as five hundred thousand Persians.

Eurytus and another man named Aristodemus where afflicted by an ailment of the eye and were not fit to fight; Leonidas released both men from their duty but when the Persians finally broke through the Spartan lines, Eurytus had his helot take him into the thick of the fighting where he was killed; his death was one of dignity and in keeping with the Spartan ideals of bravery and manhood.

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