Gerard Butler’s tense standoff with a messenger is one of the most memorable moments in 300. In the scene, his character, King Leonidas, shouts “This is Sparta!” before kicking him into a ...

In “300,” it is not at all clear that Sparta will suffer if it refuses to turn over token gifts to Persia; the main reason Leonidas doesn’t want to pay tribute to Xerxes seems to be ...

The battle of Thermopylae was real, but how real is the movie "300"? Ephraim Lytle, assistant professor of hellenistic history at the University of Toronto, has seen it and offers his view.

"300" was released in US theaters on March 9, 2007. The action film starred Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, and Dominic West. Since its release, the cast has gone on to star in other ...

where 300 Spartans, led by the aforementioned King Leonidas, battled an invading army of over 300,000 soldiers led by Rodrigo Santoro’s Xerxes, who was the “god-like” King of Persia.

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 ...

Leonidas, king of Sparta, commanded the ground forces at Thermopylae: 300 members of his royal Spartan bodyguard, called the hippeis—the subjects of countless books, movies, poems, and songs ...

The belief that Leonidas, the King of Sparta, commanded 300 of his fiercest and bravest soldiers into battle against what were supposedly millions of Persian invaders led by Xerxes I and nearly ...