# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dienekes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:27:39.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dienekes"
name: "Dienekes"
slug: "dienekes"
description: "Dienekes or Dieneces was a Spartan soldier who fought and died at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. He was acclaimed the bravest of all the Greeks who fought in that battle. Herodotus (7.226) related the following anecdote about Dienekes:... the Spartan Dienekes is said to have proved himself the best man of all, the same who, as they report, uttered this saying before they engaged battle with the Medes:— being informed by one of the men of Trachis that when the Barbarians discharged their arrows they obscured the light of the sun by the multitude of the arrows, so great was the number of their host, he was not dismayed by this, but making small account of the number of the Medes, he said that their guest from Trachis brought them very good news, for if the Medes obscured the light of the sun, the battle against them would be in the shade and not in the sun."
tagline: "Spartan soldier"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "-600"
deathDate: "-480"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.58
  momentum:             5.409054805401112
  historical:           12.33650666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dienekes"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Диенекий"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%A8neces"
    title: "Dièneces"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B9%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%AD%CE%BA%CE%B7%CF%82"
    title: "Διηνέκης"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienekes"
    title: "Dienekes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%A9neces"
    title: "Diéneces"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienezes"
    title: "Dienezes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%87%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "دینه‌کیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienek%C3%A8s"
    title: "Dienekès"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%A1"
    title: "דיאנקס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienece"
    title: "Dienece"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianekas"
    title: "Dianekas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienekes"
    title: "Dienekes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieneces"
    title: "Dieneces"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dienece"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2247008"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump