After seeing “300,” about the Spartans’ defiant stand against the Persian juggernaut at the Battle of Thermopylae, I had a few questions. For example, I rather doubted that the great Persian king ...
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one ...