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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 5th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

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,… ...

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, ...

Colin Smith (Write Back, July 15) compares the Greek disaster in Brussels to the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC, which the Greeks lost to a larger Persian army, and adds as "just a bit of insight ...

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 ...