Kolonos Hill

{{Short description|Hill in Central Greece}} {{Distinguish|Kolonos|Kolonos Agoraios}} {{Coord|38.795981|N|22.539053|E|display=title}} [[File:Thermopiles memorial epitaph.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Commemorative stone with [[Simonides of Ceos|Simonides]]' epigram]]

'''Kolonos Hill''' ({{IPAc-en|k|ə|ˈ|l|oʊ|n|ɒ|s}}; {{langx|el|Λόφος Κολωνού}}) is a hill in [[Central Greece (geographic region)|Central Greece]]. It is located in the narrow coastal passage known as [[Thermopylae]], and is near the city of [[Lamia (city)|Lamia]].

==History==

The hill is best known as the site of the final stand of the [[300 Spartans]] during the [[Battle of Thermopylae]] in 480 BC.<ref name = Crw>Crawford, Osbert Guy Stanhope (1955). ''Said and Done: The Autobiography of an Archaeologist''. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, p. 302</ref> 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.<ref name=Crw/><ref name=academic>{{cite web|title=Thermopylae|url=http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/thermopylae.html|accessdate=1 May 2014|archive-date=12 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140212142957/http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/thermopylae.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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 of Ceos|Simonides's]] epigram engraved on it.<ref>Herodotus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+7.228.1 VII, 228]</ref>

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[[Category:Landforms of Phthiotis]] [[Category:Hills of Greece]] [[Category:Battle of Thermopylae]] [[Category:Landforms of Central Greece]]