| A Book of Golden Deeds Contributor(s): Yonge, Charlotte M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1162647655 ISBN-13: 9781162647654 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Religion | Christianity - Anglican |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (0.91 lbs) 236 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Twenty thousand Persians had died before that handful of men Xerxes asked Demaratus if there were many more at Sparta like these, and was told there were 8,000. It must have been with a somewhat failing heart that he invited his courtiers from the fleet to see what he had done to the men who dared to oppose him and showed them the head and arm of Leonidas set up upon a cross; but he took care that all his own slain, except 1,000, should first be put out of sight. The body of the brave king was buried where he fell, as were those of the other dead. |