The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece ...

Gerard Butler’s net worth in 2025 is $80 million. Butler is a world-famous Scottish actor whose career spans 25 years. Of ...

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 ...

It was a suicide mission, designed to detain the Persians just long enough for the rest of the Greek allies to gather their forces. Led by King Leonidas, the Spartans heroically held the Persians ...

The Zack Snyder film from 2006 — which marked Butler’s breakout role, playing the fearsome Spartan King Leonidas — was apparently quite war zone on set. “I remember every day somebody was ...

Instead, the king would order the trumpeters to sound ... such as the statue of the lion in honor of the Spartan leader Leonidas, which was placed on the battlefield of Thermopylae.

The graphic novel and the movie tell the true story of King Leonidas I (Gerard Butler), the King of Sparta who fought in the Greco-Persian Wars in the Fifth Century BCE, roughly 2,500 years ago.

In this tongue-in-cheek parody of all your favourite sword-and-scandal classics, King Leonidas and 13 Spartan warriors must rise up to defend their homeland against the invading Persians.

Xerxes waited for 10 days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw but left with no options he pushed forward. After 3 days of battle all the Greeks were killed. The Spartan defeat was not the ...