Buddy Ebsen Obituary. LOS ANGELES (AP) â Buddy Ebsen, who starred in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones, has died after an undisclosed illness. He was 95. Ebsen died Sunday morning at Torrance Memorial Medical Center in Torrance, said Pam Hope, an administrative nursing supervisor.
Phaeacia is ruled by the happy couple Alcinous and Arete, who must have reminded Odysseus of the way he and Penelope were before his departure for war. Like Odysseus and Penelope, King Alcinous and Queen Arete of Phaeacia rule live on an island of sea-faring folk.
While Leonidas was depicted as the main king of Sparta in the film, he was actually one of two Spartan kings in the historical accounts. Stelios, the young Spartan soldier who fights bravely alongside Leonidas during the three-day battle at Thermopylae is inspired by Leonidas' lieutenant Dieneces.he first two days of battle in the Thermopylae pass are described differently in the film than in the historical accounts. On the first day of battle, Xerxes ordered 5,000 archers fire arrows at the Greeks before he dispatched a force of 10,000 Medes and Cissians to attack the Greek lines.