Leonidas at Elderpark Muses over the Meaning of Responsibility Before Thermopylae
		The king of the Spartans who gave his life, along with his men, at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC, looks up for a moment at the viewer of the painting. He has been reading a book of modern political thought and finds this lacking. Behind him and supported on his right shoulder is Elderpark Library. facing out over the eastern Aegean Sea. Over his left shoulder the ground slopes away to the Thermopylae Pass.
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