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Many of you may know of King Leonidas from 300, the bloody excellent film where he was portrayed by the rippling physique of ...
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, ...
King Leonidas: It’s an honor to have lived at yours. The Persians might have the numbers, but the Spartans train as if their lives depended on it and they’re all part of a brotherhood that ...
Little did Leonidas know that over 2,500 years later, "Molon Lave" would be used as a global marketing tool -from weapons to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.