Twenty-five hundred years ago the Spartans were the indisputable military power in Greece. No city had warriors as fierce and ...

Many of you may know of King Leonidas from 300, the bloody excellent film where he was portrayed by the rippling physique of Mr Gerard Butler. But did you know that Leonidas was in fact a real ...

In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 Greek troops against as many as 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae — and the Greeks may have won if they hadn't been betrayed.

The relentless mother was named Theano, and she was the wife of Cleombrotus, the brother of the famous Leonidas, who died defending the pass at Thermopylae. Cleombrotus succeeded him as regent of ...

Insurrectionists arrived at the White House in 2021 wearing Greek helmets. Anti-gun control advocates rally around the slogan “ Molon Labe,” a Greek phrase attributed with King Leonidas of Sparta, ...

Richard Egan, as King Leonidas of Sparta, is physically suitable for the character, but the heroic mold of his performance is only skin deep – more muscle than corpuscle.

THIS week’s Icon has gone from a man who slays to a man who sleighs. Once King Leonidas of Sparta, now he’s Santa of Lapland. Behold Gerard Butler for you, laddie of parts. His facility for ...

Who are we talking about? Leonidas, of course! Leonidas was born in the 540s B.C.E. in the Greek city-state of Sparta. His father was a king, but Leonidas had two older brothers. He was never supposed ...

The conduct of the Spartan forces, and especially their leader, King Leonidas, at the Battle of Thermopylae has come to exemplify Spartan courage and discipline.