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.

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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 ...

The graphic novel and the movie tell the true story of King Leonidas I (Gerard Butler), the King of Sparta who fought in the Greco-Persian Wars in the Fifth Century BCE, roughly 2,500 years ago.

Led by King Leonidas, the Spartans heroically held the Persians at bay for nearly a week until - outnumbered, betrayed and outflanked - they were finally defeated.

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.

Xerxes waited for 10 days 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 was not the ...