What strikes one first about 300, a Zack Snyder 2006 American film, is that it is a big display of machismo. All of the characters in the entourage of Leonidas, the Spartan king, are chiselled, ...
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How 300 Spartans fought to the death against thousands
In 480 BC, King Leonidas of Sparta and 300 of his warriors made their legendary last stand at Thermopylae. Facing a Persian army numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the Spartans held their ground ...
One of the key moments in Herodotus’ chronicle of the Persian wars comes at the narrow mountain passage of Thermopylae. Hopelessly outnumbered, but never outclassed, 300 Spartans led a contingent of ...
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