Pantites (; died c. 470s BC) was a Spartan warrior, one of the Three Hundred sent to the Battle of Thermopylae. King Leonidas I ordered Pantites on an embassy to Thessaly, possibly to recruit allies for the coming battle. However, Pantites failed to return to Thermopylae in time for the battle, arriving after all of his fellow soldiers had been killed. When he returned to Sparta, he was shunned as a "trembler" and made an outcast. Unable to live with his disgrace, he hanged himself.

See also

Eurytus of Sparta

Aristodemus of Sparta

References

Ancient Spartan soldiers

5th-century BC Spartans

Battle of Thermopylae

Suicides by hanging in Greece

470s BC deaths

Military history of ancient Thessaly

Ancient Greek ambassadors

Year of birth unknown

Pantites