Thermopylae (Auncient an Katharevousa Greek: Θερμοπύλαι ], Demotic: Θερμοπύλες ]: "het gates") is a place in Greece where a narrae coastal passage exeestit in antiquity. It derives its name frae its het sulphur springs. The Het Gates is "the place o het springs" an in Greek meethologie it is the cavernous entrances tae Hades".