300 - You Have A Story To Tell

Posted on: February 16, 2007 | Views: 68 | Comment

Leonidas sends his last messenger to relay the story of the Spartan "victory" to the council.

At the pass of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., 300 Spartan soldiers under King Leonidas held off the huge Persian army under Xerxes for a couple of days -- just long enough for the rest of the Greek city states to assemble an army to match the Persians. The Spartans died to a man, but their resistance kept the Greek Peninsula from being overwhelmed by the invaders. Frank Miller based his graphic novel on this famous last stand. Now, here's the movie.