Battle of Thermopylae has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones Date Process Result July 23, 2006 Featured article candidate Not promoted March 31, 2007 Good article nominee Listed October 22, 2007 Good article reassessment Kept March 19, 2009 Good topic candidate Promoted October 18, 2010 Good topic candidate Promoted January 22, 2024 Good topic removal candidate Demoted December 20, 2024 Good article reassessment Kept Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on August 11, 2004, August 11, 2005, and August 11, 2006. Current status: Good article

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I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria. Some of my concerns are outlined below:

• There is uncited text in the article, including the entire "Thespian monument" section
• The lede, at five paragraphs, is longer than the recommended 3-4 paragraphs at WP:LEADLENGTH

Is anyone interested in fixing up this article, or should it go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 18:08, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can anyone please lock this page? It has been vandalized so many times. Nguyen280405 (talk) 11:40, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is it a phyric victory or not? NotSoTough (talk) 09:37, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• @Matarisvan: Are you still interested in working on this? Z1720 (talk) 02:57, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Z1720: Yes, I am. However, I will need at least 2 months to commence work on this rewrite, because I am working on Artemisium and Salamis first, which are relatively easier to rewrite and have fewer commentaries. Please allow me time until April 2025 to finish this rewrite, if I haven't, you must open a 2nd reassessment. Matarisvan (talk) 12:31, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

• Θερμοπύλες.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 19:52, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The 2006 Zach Snyder film 300 (film) is a well known modern popular cultural depiction of this battle. I can understand that historians may have qualms with it, and a previous "popular culture" section was removed wholesale, and that there is a comment saying "PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANY "CULTURAL" INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE" - but surely there should be at least one reference to it even if only for reasons of disambiguation. As a reference point for why I'm putting this forward - I was pretty confused when opening the article as to whether it really was the same battle depicted in the film that I knew was so well known from the 2000s, and searching the text of the article gave no clarification as to whether it was the same thing or not. Nuclearpidgeon (talk) 03:46, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]