He points out that he has brought more soldiers than they. Leonidas asks the professions of the allied army, who are craftsmen and artisans. On the road they meet some allies, who are shocked that the Spartans are sending such a small force. His wife says goodbye, telling him to come back "with his shield or on it", and gives him a necklace. Leonidas elects to take 300 of his best soldiers as his "bodyguard" on a leisurely walk to the strategic Hot Gates location. Leonidas is reluctant to defy the corrupt clergy outright, but his wife ( Lena Headey) encourages him to think outside the box. Leonidas departs in anger, and the priests receive their bribe of Xerxes' gold from the Spartan traitor, Theron ( Dominic West), for their negative response. In her drugged trance she decrees that Sparta must not go to war, lest they interrupt the sacred Carneian festival. He proposes to repel the numerically superior enemy by using the terrain of the Hot Gates of Thermopylae, funneling the Persians into a narrow pass between the rocks and the sea, where their immense numbers will "count for nothing." The Ephors, wary of the plan, consult the Oracle ( Kelly Craig). Acknowledging the threat of Xerxes's invasion force, he visits the Ephors (priests) to obtain their favour before sending the Spartan army in battle. Insulted by their attitude, King Leonidas kicks the messengers into a well. Years later, messengers visit King Leonidas ( Gerard Butler) requesting Sparta's submission to King Xerxes ( Rodrigo Santoro). At age 15, young King-to-be Leonidas ( Tyler Neitzel) lures a wolf into a narrow passage so that he can kill it. Even the King endures this rite of passage. At age 7, each young boy is torn from his mother and makes his own way in the wilderness, to return a man. They raise their boys in the school of hard knocks, the agoge - in combat training, a small boy's loss of his weapon earns a bloody lip from the hand of his own father. The Spartans inspect each infant born to ensure it is whole - if it is deformed, the baby is abandoned to die. The synopsis below may give away important plot points. The story depicts the epic last stand of the finest Spartan soldiers who are aware of their fate, but motivated by "honor and glory", see the battle as their duty to protect the rest of Greece for as long as possible.
However, Ephialtes, a reject of the Spartan Army gets his revenge by showing Xerxes a secret goat passage up the flanks of the passage. The 300 are accompanied by about 700 Thespians who protect the flanks of the passage, and combined, the forces manage to slay tens of thousands of Persians and prevent their entry into Hellas for several days. Choosing the former, Leonidas forms an army of 300 Spartan warriors to block the narrow passage of Thermopylae where Xerxes intends to reach Hellas. King Leonidas of Sparta is left with two options: he will either have to sacrifice himself for the well-being of Sparta or watch it burn to the ground. Persians under the rule of King Xerxes have already taken over some of the Hellenic city-states, and now threaten Sparta and Athens. The Spartan defeat was not the one expected, as a local shepherd, named Ephialtes, defected to the Persians and informed Xerxes that the separate path through Thermopylae, which the Persians could use to outflank the Greeks, was not as heavily guarded as they thought.ģ00 tells the story of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. After 3 days of battle all the Greeks were killed. Xerxes waited for 10 days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw but left with no options he pushed forward. Persian King Xerxes led a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. 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. King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
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