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

Novak Djokovic has been friends for years with the actor Gerard Butler, star of the film 300 which is based on fictional stories from the Persian Wars. The two are so close, in fact, that Djokovic ...

There’s a scene in Zack Snyder’s 300 where Leonidas breaks from the ranks of his army and begins cutting through the Persians. The camera pans to the side to drink it in, showing him battling ...

Zack Snyder's 2007 movie 300 is getting a prequel TV show, so it's a good bet people will start saying "This is Sparta!" again.

The film's central character, King Leonidas (portrayed by Gerard Butler), famously used the slogan "This is Sparta." It eventually turned into an oft-used catchphrase in the pop culture dominion.

Yes, King Leonidas from Record of Ragnarok truly reigned over Sparta in the early 400s BC. That whole story about the small troop of Spartans taking on thousands of Persians is no lie.

Thermopylae, the narrow pass above Greece’s Malian Gulf, is most famous for the legendary last stand of King Leonidas and his storied band of 300 Spartans in 480 B.C.E. But the site has seen ...

There’s a scene in Zack Snyder’s 300 where Leonidas breaks from the ranks of his army and begins cutting through the Persians. The camera pans to the side to drink it in, showing him battling ...