Does history remember the exact date of the Battle of Thermopylae?

by [deleted]

We know that the battle was in 480BC. But do we have more precise dates? Like month, season and such? Now to my (limited) knowledge the Georgian Calendar was not around. (I think)

Thanks for any and all information.

DRako1321

soo somebody already decomposed this

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1qt2t3/does_anyone_know_the_exact_date_of_the_battle_of/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

To me it seems like end of August, thus I believe it was either 19-21 September, or rather 29-31 August.

But with moon callendar it's more likely to be 29-31 August. That would put Salamis (29 August if this is a correct one) a month after Thermopylae, and the date of 19-21 August as written in link above is just 10 days between Thermopylae and Salamis which is possible if Persians didn't hang around for a month, it's the most possible date. I'm not comfortable because Persians had to do a lot of logistics after battle but it's still kinda possible.

So my opinion is 29-31 August is the correct one. (offcourse let's give it a -/+ ~7 days margin because we have completely no clue and all dates may be slightly innacurate or shifted altogether).

Rest you can read from link above.