The 300 or so Spartans helped hold off an enormous Persian Army for three days. Luisa Ricciarini / Bridgeman Images Actually, Spartans could be as cowardly and corrupt, as likely to surrender or ...

The Greeks never forgot the heroism of the 300 Spartans. At the pass of Thermopylae they set up a memorial with a carved inscription that read: “Tell them in Sparta thou who pass by, “That ...

When the vast Persian army met 300 furious Spartans at Thermopylae back in 480 B.C., they didn’t bring along any charging elephants or rhinos. Their leader, Xerxes — who sported a ZZ Top beard ...

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 ...

Spartan legend, the legend of the supersoldiers, while based on reality, wasn’t entirely applicable even in the Spartans’ own time. The myth of the 300, of Thermopylae, and of Sparta as a ...