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The monument
stands opposite the historical hill of Kolonos and represents Leonidas in full
armour. It was designed by B. Phalereus, and was erected in the 1950s at the expense
of Greeks living in America.
The monument was built to commemorate the battle at Thermopylae,
and is located at the centre of the pass, where the final phase of the battle
took place, as is attested by the accumulation at the foot of the hill of iron
and bronze spearheads dated to the 5th century B.C. Members of the Amphiktyony
erected on the hill a stone statue of a lion in memory of the deceased warriors,
with an epigram written by Simonides, but the monument is not preserved today.
A restricted excavation on the hill of Kolonos, in 1939, revealed
fortification works of several periods, Roman and Byzantine graves, and ruins
of Byzantine buildings.
This text is cited Feb 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.
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