Multiple choice general knowledge

"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, by Spartan law, we lie."

  1. King Alfred the Great

  2. King Leonidas

  3. Julius Caesar

  4. Edmond Spenser
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Explanation

This epitaph commemorating the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) honors King Leonidas I of Sparta, who led 300 Spartans against the Persian army. The Simonides poem celebrates their sacrifice in defending Greece, and Leonidas became the symbolic leader of this legendary last stand.

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