Spartan King Leonidas was an 8-letter figure in Greek history who is best known for his heroic stand against the Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae. He was the son of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta and was succeeded by his half-brother, King Pleistarchus. Spartan King Menelaus was also an 8-letter figure in Greek history who was the husband of Helen of Troy and the brother of Agamemnon. He was the son of Atreus and Aerope and the brother of Agamemnon, Thyestes, and Clytemnestra.