# Kolonos Hill

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Hill in Central Greece

Not to be confused with [Kolonos](/source/Kolonos) or [Kolonos Agoraios](/source/Kolonos_Agoraios).

[38°47′46″N 22°32′21″E / 38.795981°N 22.539053°E / 38.795981; 22.539053](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Kolonos_Hill&params=38.795981_N_22.539053_E_)

Commemorative stone with [Simonides](/source/Simonides_of_Ceos)' epigram

**Kolonos Hill** ([/kəˈloʊnɒs/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English); [Greek](/source/Greek_language): Λόφος Κολωνού) is a hill in [Central Greece](/source/Central_Greece_(geographic_region)). It is located in the narrow coastal passage known as [Thermopylae](/source/Thermopylae), and is near the city of [Lamia](/source/Lamia_(city)).

## History

The hill is best known as the site of the final stand of the [300 Spartans](/source/300_Spartans) during the [Battle of Thermopylae](/source/Battle_of_Thermopylae) in 480 BC.[1] In 1939, [Spyridon Marinatos](/source/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](/source/Simonides_of_Ceos) epigram engraved on it.[3]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Crw_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Crw_1-1) Crawford, Osbert Guy Stanhope (1955). *Said and Done: The Autobiography of an Archaeologist*. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, p. 302

1. **[^](#cite_ref-academic_2-0)** ["Thermopylae"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140212142957/http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/thermopylae.html). Archived from [the original](http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/thermopylae.html) on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Herodotus [VII, 228](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+7.228.1)

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