Each city had its own general, but the one most admired and the leader of the whole army

was a Lacedaemonian, Leonidas, son of Anaxandrides, son of Leon, son of Eurycratides, son of

Anaxandrus, son of Eurycrates, son of Polydorus, son of Alcamenes, son of Teleclus, son of

Archelaus, son of Hegesilaus, son of Doryssus, son of Leobotes, son of Echestratus, son of Agis,

son of Eurysthenes, son of Aristodemus, son of Aristomachus, son of Cleodaeus, son of Hyllus,

son of Heracles. Leonidas had gained the kingship at Sparta unexpectedly.

The offspring of Hercules!

You must have a son!

He now came to Thermopylae with the appointed three hundred he had selected, all of whom had sons. 

Medizing

—> don’t side with the Persians!

Mainland China, mainland Chinese as the new Persians? We Americans, we the new Spartans!