And there is perhaps no better precedent for this archetype than one of the first such examples in recorded history: The Battle of Thermopylae. Perhaps better known today as “that battle from the ...

In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 men against an estimated 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae — and almost won. The Greeks successfully used their home terrain ...

The carnage of the last, heroic moments of the Battle of Thermopylae is vividly re-created in this 20th-century battle scene by Stanley Meltzoff. Bridgeman/ACI. By Javier Murcia.

Thermopylae was in many ways an accidental battle. The Greek coalition had put together a strategy, joint land sea strategy of fighting the Persians. The question was where were they going to make ...

He only got the battle wrong. It was not Marathon, but Thermopylae, 10 years after Marathon, that kept him and the rest of the West out of the woods. And this, as he announces in the subtitle of his ...

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 5th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

The once-in-a-lifetime journey continues for KTBS 3's Rick Rowe and his fellow travelers. They are making amazing memories as they explore Ancient Greece on their vacation with Collette.

One of my favorite poems, “Thermopylae,” by Constantine Cavafy, commemorates the famous battle in which 300 Spartans and their allies stood their ground against the Persian army, which ...

And there is perhaps no better precedent for this archetype than one of the first such examples in recorded history: The Battle of Thermopylae. Perhaps better known today as “that battle from the ...