When Ephialtes of Trachus betrayed the Spartans at Thermopylae (you remember the grotesque hunchback from The 300) his mind doubtless was on the reward he expected to receive from Persian King Xerxes. He never imagined his greed-induced act of perfidy would generate an infamy that would endure through the ages.
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