In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 men against an estimated 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of ...

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 ...

The battle recorded by Greek historians was ... giving the Greeks time to retreat and reorganize. The strategic location of the Thermopylae is no geological coincidence. Hot springs of sulfur ...

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 ...

Instead of confining itself to a single battle in detail ... see a legend having sprung up around Thermopylae based on the heroic last stand of Leonidas and the 300 Spartans. That, along with its key ...

is the campy call drawn from the box office hit "300." It's the buffed-up version of the Battle of Thermopylae. 480 BC. Spartans versus Persians. The few against the many. Critics hate it.

Paul Cartledge, however, seems to think Mill mostly right. He only got the battle wrong. It was not Marathon, but Thermopylae, 10 years after Marathon, that kept him and the rest of the West out of ...

Edward Burleson is quoted as saying, “Thermopylae had her messenger of defeat; the Alamo had none.” Burleson was drawing a comparison between the 1836 Battle of the Alamo with the ...

The hopeless but ultimately inspiring defense of their country by a band of 300 Spartan soldiers against an immense army of Persian invaders in 480 B.C. – known to history as the Battle of ...