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. This ...

In 480 BC at Thermopylae, a small Greek coalition, which included 300 Spartans, fought against an invading Persian army. Spoiler alert: The Spartans lost. But the valor shown in temporarily holding ...

The hopeless but ultimately inspiring defense of their country by a band of 300 Spartan soldiers against an immense army of Persian invaders in 480 B.C. - known to history as the Battle of Thermopylae ...

Before there was an Alamo – or an Agincourt, or an Iwo Jima – there was the Battle of Thermopylae, ancient Greece’s official entry in the “all-time great last stands” sweepstakes. From a numbers ...

What got Frank Miller obsessed with the story of the 300 in the first place was “The 300 Spartans,” a 1962 epic that, although it suffers from tin-man acting by Richard Egan (who keeps smiling ...

Zack Snyder’s 300, from a screenplay by Mr. Snyder, Kurt Johnstad and Michael B. Gordon, based on the graphic novel Zack Snyder’s 300, from a screenplay by Mr. Snyder, Kurt Johnstad and Michael B.

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 thought to ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from 300 Spartans We Are Spartans! Dawn your armor and prepare for glory. There is no retreat and no surrender. You are on an epic run against Xerxes’ Hordes.