Pantites

Summary

Pantites (Ancient Greek: Παντίτης; died c. 470s BC) was a Spartan warrior, one of the Three Hundred sent to the Battle of Thermopylae. King Leonidas I ordered Pantites on an embassy to Thessaly, possibly to recruit allies for the coming battle. However, Pantites failed to return to Thermopylae in time for the battle, arriving after all of his fellow soldiers had been killed. When he returned to Sparta, he was shunned as a "trembler" and made an outcast. Unable to live with his disgrace, he hanged himself.[1]

Pantites
Native name
Παντίτης
Diedc. 475 BC
AllegianceSparta
Years of service480 BC
Battles/warsSecond Persian invasion of Greece
Battle of Thermopylae

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  1. ^ Herodotus 7.232