Dienekes (Greek: Διηνέκης) was a Spartan officer present at the Battle of Thermopylae. He was acclaimed the bravest of all the three hundred Spartiates selected to fight in that battle. Herodotus related the following anecdote about Dienekes: Sparta (Doric: , Attic: ) is a city in southern Greece. ... It has been suggested that 300 Spartans be merged into this article or section. ... Spartiates were the elite warrior class of the rigidly hierarchical Spartan society. ... Bust of Herodotus Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: , Herodotos Halikarnasseus) was a Dorian Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC - ca. ...
"Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespaians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, when they fired their volleys, the mass of arrows blocked out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we'll have our battle in the shade.'" - Histories, 7.226
Dienekes is one of the main characters in Steven Pressfield's novel Gates of Fire. Thespiae was an ancient Greek city in Boeotia. ... Trachis was a landscape in ancient Greece. ... The Persian Empire was a series of historical empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau (IrÄn - Land of the Aryans[1]) and beyond. ... Steven Pressfield is an American author, predominatedly of military historical fiction set in classical antiquity. ...
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Dienekes has a prety provocative post on attractiveness (everyone has an opinion on this topic....).
Anyways, for me a prototypical attractive germanic girl would be very pale, have night blue eyes (skye blue is kinda boring), reddish blonde or reddish light brown hair, very thin eyebrows, strong or tiny nose and full but not everted lips.
It's a rather strange coincidence that the characteristics of the attractive face are a close match to how another German, Egon v.
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