Summary: Herodotus took the first of the three epigrams at Thermopylae seriously as an
historical source and strove to reconcile the troop strengths given in it with the information
in his other sources. In his attempts at reconciliation we can see both interpretation and
invention – as well as, ironically, an essential fidelity to several written sources which we can
still identify.
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