Problem: At the battle of Thermopylae, Select Answer(s) Themistocles had to trick the Greeks into fighting. Athenians became the first to use a running attack in hoplite warfare. Leonidas and the 300 fought until they were overwhelmed and killed. King Darius watched the battle himself King Xerxes watched the battle himself Miltiades had to convince the polemarch to vote to fight. Themistocles used bribery to get the Greeks to fight. Artemisia sank one of her allied ships to escape pursuit. Ephialtes showed the Persians a back path to surround the Greeks The Athenians had only 192 casualties compared to 6,400 Persian dead.