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Thermopylae means "hot gates", referring to the area's hot sulfur springs. The location was also associated with the cavernous entrance to Hades, the underworld in Greek mythology, which was said to be at Thermopylae. According to one version of the Labours of Heracles, it was said that the waters at Thermopylae became hot because the divine

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