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The king was at a loss as to how to deal with the present difficulty. Epialtes son of Eurydemus, a Malian, thinking he would get a great reward from the king, came to speak with him and told him of the path leading over the mountain to +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae. In so doing he caused the destruction of the Hellenes remaining there.
The king was at a loss as to how to deal with the present difficulty. Epialtes son of Eurydemus, a Malian, thinking he would get a great reward from the king, came to speak with him and told him of the path leading over the mountain to +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae. In so doing he caused the destruction of the Hellenes remaining there.
[2] Later he fled into
+Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly in fear of the
Lacedaemonians, and while he was in exile, a price was put on his head by the
Pylagori
1
when the
Amphictyons assembled at
Pylae. Still later he returned from exile to
Anticyra and was killed by
Athenades, a
Trachinian.
[3]
Athenades slew
Epialtes for a different reason, which I will tell later in my history,
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but he was given no less honor by the
Lacedaemonians. It was in this way, then, that
Epialtes was later killed.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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