Hot Gates of Thermopylae
is really Thermopylae, Phthiotis
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
The narrow pass where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans made their last stand, which opens the game with a flashback battle.
The real place
The battle of Thermopylae was fought in 480 BCE. Silt from the Spercheios river has since pushed the coastline several kilometres back, so the narrow pass between mountain and sea no longer looks as it did.
Visiting
There is a Leonidas monument and a visitor centre by the highway, with the Kolonos hill where the last Spartans fell across the road.
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