It was against the Spartan code to surrender or retreat. The 300 Spartans who refused to leave were accompanied by 700 Thespians, 400 Thebans, and likely the helots, slaves of the Spartans.

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 ...

Even with all the amazing battle sequences, the best 300 quotes have ... be carried back on his shield. According to Plutarch, this line was actually spoken by numerous Spartan women as the ...

Inward-looking and self-sufficient, the Spartans were the most feared ... it was dishonorable to return without a shield and not without a helmet, the Spartan king, Demaratos (510 - 491) is ...

Persian King Xerxes led a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans ... The Spartan defeat was not the ...