In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 men against an estimated 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae — and almost won. The Greeks successfully used their home terrain ...

Betrayal crushed Sparta's last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae. Outnumbered and undaunted, Spartan warriors and other Greek troops held firm in the face of Persia's might, until treachery ...

And there is perhaps no better precedent for this archetype than one of the first such examples in recorded history: The Battle of Thermopylae. Perhaps better known today as “that battle from the ...

In the cinema, there have always been “films” and “movies.” One speaks to art, the other to pure lost-in- the-popcorn-moment excitement. To that latter list, add “300,… ...

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The SECOND battle of Thermopylae: Fragments reveal Roman fight against invading Goths in same pass Spartans fought '300' battle. Found in pieces of Greek text that lay undiscovered in Austrian museum ...

Thermopylae - The Battle that Changed the World, has lots of gore. It was there in 480BC that Leonidas and his Spartans, a force of 298 (not 300; one was on sick leave and Aristodamus, ...

And there is perhaps no better precedent for this archetype than one of the first such examples in recorded history: The Battle of Thermopylae. Perhaps better known today as “that battle from the ...