The belief that Leonidas, the King of Sparta, commanded 300 of his fiercest and bravest soldiers into battle against what were supposedly millions of Persian invaders led by Xerxes I and nearly ...

He played Stelios, one of the 300 Spartan warriors who fight alongside ... in the shade," which is said in response to a dying Persian soldier's words about their arrows blotting out the sun.

leads an elite group of 300 soldiers (supported by a few thousand other Greek warriors) to the narrow pass at Thermopylae, ...

Across the Hellespont, the narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia, he had constructed two bridges, each made of over 300 ships tied ... exaggerated account) soldiers made camp at ...

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 ...