But what happened to Ephialtes after the betrayal? Again Herodotus sheds some light: “Ephialtes afterwards fled into Thessaly, for fear of the Lacedaemonians [ed: Spartans]; and he being so banished a ...

“He believed motherhood to be the most important function of freeborn women,” wrote Greek historian Xenophon in the Constitution of the Lacedaemonians. “Therefore, in the first place, he insisted on ...