No Archers used at Thermopylae

Krall

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Urusai[InFi];2269498 said:
Supposedly the Greeks could have defended the pass for much longer, but the Ionian commander who was supposed to guard the one pass that could cause them to be entrapped left for some reason (I think he heard that his home city was going to get hit so he retreated)

I thought the Phosians were defending the path, and thought the Persians were trying to get around the Spartans to attack Phosia, instead of trying to get around the Spartans to surround them, so they retreated to Phosia?
 
what sources? 1.000 Spartans sounds about right but the portion of hoplites does not.
depends on how they define lacadaemonian. If they just mean spartiates and those secondary troops that accompanied them, then that might be just the spartan contingent. On the other hand, it might be refering to only hoplites, but the hoplites drawn from both Sparta and its Peleponesian allies. This could account for the tripling of the hoplite force listed, depending on the actual composition of the overall greek host at Thermopylae, which I am having trouble recalling.
 
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