Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now ...

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In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand ... of the Greek allies to gather their forces. Led by King Leonidas, the Spartans heroically held the Persians at bay for nearly ...

king of Sparta and hero of the celebrated Battle of Thermopylae (480 B.C.). In the battle, the Persian Army crushed more than 7,000 Greeks—including 300 Spartans, who are widely and falsely ...

Each year the ephors, or magistrates, chose the 300 best hoplites in Sparta to become the hippeis—elite soldiers who formed the king’s private guard. Known as a hoplon—from which is derived ...

Snyder’s 300 tells the bloody story of Roman leader King Leonidas and the fight he and his 300 Spartans led against the Persian army. It’s also based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel of the ...

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in ...