The best estimate amongst wildly divergent accounts and guesses is probably 40,000.
around 6000
about 20,000 Persians and 4000 Greeks.
The Ancient Persians were captured twice.
Leonidas.
The name of the brave king who died in battle while protecting Sparta from the Persian was Leonidas. He died a heroic death at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
became king of persians after his father died
There was way to many to count.
about 150,000
Many.
About 25,000.
No. The Spartans defeated about 500,000 Persians along with about 1,700 Greeks. Later on in the war, they withdrew to defend Sparta and lost the war. The Spartans alone did not fight or defeat Persians and Persian allies. Many Greek city states allied and defeated Persians in land and sea battles in two separate wars. The only Greek defeat from the most famous battles in the two separate Persian invasions was in Thermopylae. And even then, few thousand Greeks died, including plus or minus 300 Spartans, while it is believed more than 20,000 Persians and their allies that included many Greeks, died in Thermopylae. So it was an honorable defeat.
they wanted to punish the Persians for attacking Greece