Xerxes obliged. His army, estimated to be made up of anywhere between 100,000 and 300,000 men, marched forward. The 7,000-man Greek army led by Leonidas met Xerxes’ forces at the narrow mountain ...

Leonidas’s plan was to hold Xerxes at the narrow pass—advantageous terrain that would act as a force multiplier for an army of inferior size. Restricted by the narrow gorge, ...

In the end, we are to believe that even though Leonidas died, Xerxes failed because he “has betrayed a fatal flaw: hubris.” I beg to differ. Hubris is insecurity’s enemy.

March 14, 2007 — -- The leader of the most powerful empire in the world invades a small country to avenge his father's failure to do so years ago. His army is relentlessly attacked by a proud ...

In August 480 B.C. the Spartan King Leonidas together with his most fierce warriors faced the Persian army. Outnumbered and against all the odds, geology helped in the last stand of the 300.

In the movie 300, a fictional version of the very real Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., Spartas King Leonidas found himself in a conundrum.

Without the council's consent, and against the instructions of Sparta's mystical priests, King Leonidas leads 300 soldiers into battle against King Xerxes and his massive Persian army.

In Frank Miller’s original 300 comic, it takes the Persian king Xerxes and his army of thousands three days to destroy the small Spartan force led by King Leonidas and go on to successfully ...