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The Hot Gates Synopsis of the Article Hot Gates of Thermopylae The battle of Thermopylae was fought between 7000 Greeks under Leonidas (including 300 Spartans) and 500,000-2.5 million Persian troops under Xerxes. Xerxes had marched across the Hellespont (达达尼尔海峡,在土尔其欧亚两部分之间,连接马尔马拉海与爱琴海) towards Greece because he wanted Greece to become a satrapy (辖地) of his and submit to his divine will by giving him earth and water. The two armies met at a 50-foot-wide pass (关口) in Northern Greece and here, a small phalanx (方阵) of Greek hoplites (重甲步兵) held off (抵制) wave after wave of Persian infantrymen, cav