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In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 men against an estimated 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae — and almost won. The Greeks successfully used their home terrain ...

Thermopylae The Battle that Changed the World by Paul Cartledge Overlook, 376 pp., $30 One of the key moments in Herodotus' chronicle of the Persian wars comes at the narrow mountain passage of ...

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

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.).

Instead of the neo-noir, pulp-fiction theater of cruelty in the Robert Rodriguez's 2005 film "Sin City," "300" dives into the mythology of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

The battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. saw a small force from the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta hold back a massive army from the Persian Empire.

Burleson’s words illustrated how, unlike at the Battle of Thermopylae, the details of what happened at the Alamo were lost — the experiences of the 189 defenders died with them. In the end, no ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — When the Spartans fought against the Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae, the Greek forces were told that they faced so many soldiers that their arrows could block out the ...