Does Bush Resemble Leonidas or Xerxes? By ABC News. March 14, 2007, 12:37 PM.

“300” is a 2006 movie depicting the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae where 300 Spartans, defenders of King Leonidas, along with ...

In the end, we are to believe that even though Leonidas died, Xerxes failed because he “has betrayed a fatal flaw: hubris.” I beg to differ. Hubris is insecurity’s enemy.

In the movie 300, a fictional version of the very real Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., Spartas King Leonidas found himself in a conundrum.

In Frank Miller’s original 300 comic, it takes the Persian king Xerxes and his army of thousands three days to destroy the small Spartan force led by King Leonidas and go on to successfully ...

> This year Greek archeologists have been exploring the site of Thermopylae, heroically defended in 480 B.C. by King Leonidas with 2.000 soldiers against Xerxes' Persian hordes. Recently they ...

According to legend, at the battle of Thermopylae, the Persians’ king, Xerxes, threatened to fire so many arrows at the Spartan soldiers blocking his invasion of Greece that the shafts would ...

March 14, 2007 — -- The leader of the most powerful empire in the world invades a small country to avenge his father's failure to do so years ago. His army is relentlessly attacked by a proud ...