https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Aristodemus_of_Sparta?oldid=166593. [2] In popular culture. However, in 1871, a law was passed granting freedom to children of slaves born in or after 1872. It was not a coincidence that all 300 of the soldiers already had male children; therefore their replacement in the Spartan Army was a given. Branded a Coward, Died a Hero: A Film about the Only Survivor... 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The first was Pantites, who had been sent by Leonidas as an emissary to Thessaly to call for reinforcements. Aristodemus (Greek: Αριστόδημος) was a Spartan warrior, one of the many sent to the Battle of Thermopylae. He was likely also the first person to set foot on Plymouth Rock. Equally useful for Sparta’s image were stories of Spartans who made the mistake of surviving. When they saw that we put locks and keys on our doors, they supposed that it was from fear of them, that they might not kill us, but not because they believed that anyone would steal the property of another. He had no civil rights and was even obliged to step aside when a Spartan passed by. He then dedicated his life to prove that he could die a good Spartan- which meant achieving an honorable death in battle. Aristodemus charged, berserker-like, out of the phalanx and was gravely injured, but survived until the last of the Persian wars had ended at Eurymedon. Richard Bellingham was the last surviving signer of the Massachusetts Bay Charter. When Xerxes was finally convinced that the Greeks were not kidding him when they insisted on confronting his vast army, he truly believed it was a given that the complete obliteration of the single-minded defenders of Thermopylae was just a matter of time. He is depicted in, Leonidas at Thermopylae, Jacques-Louis David, 1814. Greece.GreekReporter.com Latest News from Greece. He presided over the trial of popular religious leader Anne Hutchinson in 1637 and voted for her banishment. He was 27 when he witnessed the crucifixion (AD 33). If her account is accurate, she was born 05 Mar 1871. He could not exercise or train to fight and he could not marry because no woman would have him. This is the first paragraph of his will (translated, of course): We found these kingdoms in such good order, and the said Incas governed them in such wise [manner] that throughout them there was not a thief, nor a vicious man, nor an adulteress, nor was a bad woman admitted among them, nor were there immoral people. He was on the board of Harvard College and worked on the colony's legal code in his spare time. Once again, Aristodemus was in a difficult position and was forced to apologize for his behavior. Aristodemus was one of only two Spartan survivors, as he was not present at the last stand. They were so free from the committal of crimes or excesses, as well men as women, that the Indian who had 100,000 pesos worth of gold or silver in his house, left it open merely placing a small stick against the door, as a sign that its master was out. But a much more interesting subject of eternal study will be how so few not only did not fear the enemy, but were able to ultimately stop them, defeating them first in the mind and then on the battlefield, weakening their forces, resulting in their ultimate defeat at Salamis. For this accused of cowardice, death may have been preferable. He was a great-great-grandson of Heracles and helped lead the fifth and final attack on Mycenae in the Peloponnesus.[1]. Aristodemos is the main figure in Caroline Snedeker's popular historical novel The Coward of Thermopylae (1911), retitled in 1912 as The Spartan. He was actually quite liberal for a Puritan, and was for the expansion of suffrage (to whom, I'm not sure). “You and your fellow Spartans live by a sacred law which is to return from battle victorious or dead — nothing in between would be acceptable by Sparta.”. The charges were kind of funny: he got in trouble for performing the ceremony himself.
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