The myth of Sparta’s martial prowess owes much of its power to a storied feat of heroism accomplished by Leonidas, king of Sparta and hero of the celebrated Battle of Thermopylae (480 B.C.). In ...

Leaving neither monuments nor epics, Sparta’s enduring legacy is a military ideal, embodied in Leonidas, hero of Thermopylae, commemorated here in a statue in the modern city of Sparta in Greece.

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 ...