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Julius Caesar the Great.

Julius Caesar was a Roman not a Greek.

There are any number of Greek Generals available which could have taken this title. My personal favourite was Miltiades who was a general at the battle of Marathon. He encouraged the Greek Generals to attack the Persians. The Greeks won the battle by slaughtering 6,400 Persians to the Greeks losses of just 192.

Perhaps the most popular these days due in part to the film "300" would be Leonidas, King of Sparta who lead as general of the Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae.

He lead the resistance of the combined armies of Greece against Xerxes, the Persian king in 481. According to Herodotus he held back the armies of Xerxes in a small coastal road at thermopylae with 300 Spartiates, 900 Helots and 700 Thespians, plus support teams.

Leonidas and the Spartiates was finally defeated when a traitor informed Xerxes of a mountain pass which enabled his army to surround Leonidas. Leonidas was killed in the battle and the Spartans slaughtered. the only surviving Greeks from the battle were the Thebans who surrendered.

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