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.). In ...

Leaving neither monuments nor epics, Sparta’s enduring legacy is a military ideal, embodied in Leonidas, hero of Thermopylae, commemorated here in a statue in the modern city of Sparta in Greece.

The Battle of Thermopylae has become the stuff of legend ever since. The belief that Leonidas, the King of Sparta, commanded 300 of his fiercest and bravest soldiers into battle against what were ...

With no help from their Greek allies, the King of Sparta, Leonidas, blocked the hot gates with the Spartans. With an army of one hundred thousand men, King Xerxes confronted the 300 Spartans. He ...

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 ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic ... The first woman to win an event - as a trainer that is - was Cynisca of Sparta. She won the four-horse chariot race with her team in two ...