Kolonos Hill

The hill is best known as the site of the final stand of the 300 Spartans during the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.^[1] In 1939, Spyridon Marinatos, a Greek archaeologist found large numbers of Persian arrows around the hill, which changed the hitherto accepted identification of the site where the Greeks had fallen, slain by Persian arrows.^[1][2]

A commemorative stone was placed on the site in antiquity, but the original stone has not survived. In 1955, a new stone was erected, with Simonides's epigram engraved on it.^[3]