By the spring of 480 Xerxes' army had reached Macedonia in the north of Greece. In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of ...

300 is a thrilling spectacle of glory in ... of widespread carnage is admittedly a good representation of Spartan culture. Xerxes offers to make Leonidas a warlord ruling over all of Greece ...

After its victory over Leonidas' 300, the Persian Army ... oligarchic Sparta whose might lies with its superior infantry troops. But Xerxes still reigns supreme in numbers over sea and land.

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in ...