Johan Tobias Sergel (1740-1814) Othryades the Spartan Dying c. 1778 © Musée du Louvre/P. Philibert A Spartan hero Othryades is a Spartan hero, the only survivor of a battle between three hundred Spartans and as many Argives to gain control of the city of Thyreatis. He was the victor, but killed himself so as not […]