| 1 | * 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians holding the pass in Thermopylæ against hundreds of thousands[[note]]In real life, the Persian army likely had only a few tens of thousands of soldiers, but this Awesome Moment is about ''The Histories'' which reports upwards of a hundred thousand.[[/note]] of soldiers in the Persian army for far longer than expected, inflicting major casualties before being outflanked and overwhelmed. |
| 2 | ** Crosses over with tearjerker, but a few years later, a Greek traveler, Simonedes of Ceos, wrote down a centopath (a sort of plaque) on the battlefield. The inscription on it undoubtedly assures yet again, how badass the Spartans were: |
| 3 | -->''"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie."'' |
| 4 | * The naval Battle of Artemisio in Euboea, in which an Athenian-led navy forms a hedgehog and survives against a vastly-larger Persian fleet that had encircled them. |
| 5 | * The Battle of Salamis, in which disciplined and well-trained Hellene sailors throw a much larger Persian fleet into chaos and even open up the possibility of cutting off the Persian land army's retreat route. |
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