The myth of Sparta’s martial ... accomplished by Leonidas, king of Sparta and hero of the celebrated Battle of Thermopylae (480 B.C.). In the battle, the Persian Army crushed more than 7,000 ...

Sparta was the greatest land army in Ancient Greece ... first meet one another in the film, the Persian king tries to win over Leonidas and his Spartans as allies, saying they had much to offer ...

In history, few replies have ever carried as much weight, defiance, and wit as a single word once uttered by the Spartans: ...

When facing a foreign foe, the Spartan king would first offer a sacrifice ... Sparta’s enduring legacy is a military ideal, embodied in Leonidas, hero of Thermopylae, commemorated here in ...

When the ancient Greeks faced the Persians in the Battle of Artemisium, they set the tone for the Battle of Salamis.

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 ...

Speaking with People, the actor revealed that numerous cast members sustained injuries while portraying King Leonidas and his Spartan soldiers as they battled the invading Persian army.

Faced with such an overwhelming force, only a small confederation of city-states, led by Athens and Sparta ... to gather their forces. Led by King Leonidas, the Spartans heroically held the ...

These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian War, from 431 to 404BC. Only the threat of invasion by a foreign enemy made ...

Persian King Xerxes led a Army ... for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw but left with no options he pushed forward. After 3 days of battle all the Greeks were killed. The Spartan defeat ...