# Leonidas — Histories character guide

> Leonidas in Histories by Herodotus.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Leonidas the Lacedaemonian, Leonidas Abronichos

**First appearance:** 0008-book-vii-polymnia

## Who they are

Spartan king who commands the Greeks at Thermopylae.

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