Leonidas, king of Sparta, commanded the ground forces at Thermopylae: 300 members of his royal Spartan bodyguard, called the hippeis—the subjects of countless books, movies, ...

Yes, King Leonidas from Record of Ragnarok truly reigned over Sparta in the early 400s BC. That whole story about the small troop of Spartans taking on thousands of Persians is no lie.

A friend of King Leonidas, the captain rallies 300 Spartan soldiers to fight the Persian army. After his son Astinos is killed in battle with the Persians, the captain breaks rank and kills ...

Dear “subjects and citizens” of a warring nation: And by that, we mean the U.S. not Sparta during the period depicted in “300.” In the years since the mission was declared accomplished ...

Gerard Butler delivered one of his most memorable performances in 300.Playing the Spartan King Leonidas, he packed on a ton of muscle, did a bunch of shouting, and kicked a lot of butt. Butler had ...

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 ...

A few lucky Marines got a taste of the “Spartan kick” when King Leonidas himself invaded Camp Pendleton, California, on Friday.. Gerard Butler was on base to promote his new movie, London Has ...