Editing Ephialtes of Trachis (section)

==In popular culture==
In the 1962 film ''[[The 300 Spartans]]'', Ephialtes was portrayed by [[Kieron Moore (Irish actor)|Kieron Moore]] and is depicted as a shady farmhand who worked on a goat farm near [[Thermopylae]]. He betrays the Spartans because he was spurned by the Spartan maiden, Ellas, thinking he could win her over by dangling riches he thought he would later have. 

[[Frank Miller]]'s 1998 [[comic book]] [[miniseries]] ''[[300 (comics)|300]]'', the [[300 (film)|2006 film adaptation of the same name]], and the [[300: Rise of an Empire|2014 sequel]], portray Ephialtes (played in the films by [[Andrew Tiernan]]) as a severely deformed Spartan exile whose parents fled Sparta to protect him from the infanticide he would have surely suffered as a disfigured infant.