Twenty-five hundred years ago the Spartans were the indisputable military power in Greece. No city had warriors as fierce and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wounded Leonidas, played by Gerard Butler, roars his defiance at the Persian invaders.Warner Bros. Xerxes, played by Rodrigo Santoro, vents his rage at the losses sustained by his army while ...

The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.E.—the subject of Zack Snyder’s 2006 film 300 ... Sparta’s famous militarism was inseparable ...

The myth of Sparta’s martial prowess owes much of its power to a storied feat of heroism accomplished by Leonidas, king of Sparta and hero of the celebrated Battle of Thermopylae (480 B.C.).

It is dated to around 480 B.C., the year of the Spartans’ heroic stand against the Persians at Thermopylae. The statue was found at Sparta’s sanctuary of Athena Chalkioikos, a temple of ...