Yep.

He is not a king he is a true leader

Spartan's didn't know anything other than war. He was the king of sparta merely and simply because he could fight well. What else would you expect of him?

If Leonidas were a corporate CEO today, he would be the only one in history to volunteer to be laid off along with everyone else.

Yap like Ethiopian kings who lead their man to battle and die with them

Spartan culture was one of true heroes

Spartans literally pulling a Han Solo and going, “Never tell me the odds!” Though a little cocky, I can sympathize with this mentality. There is an enemy. How many are there? Look, I’ll know after I’ve killed them all, just tell me where they are. One thing at a time, my guy.

@@poseidon808And today, we can't define what a woman is.

@@IkeStarnes40Darn modern times with their psychology and science. They gotta be manly men, without books and only a spear to keep them warm.

​@@HeadOfBusinessno they had books..but used them as footstools. For paper for smoking out oracles or ham etc

What happened to that guy? How someone know his name and treachery

@@zilverheart Because there were propably a fews survivors who managed to tell the tale or maybe some Persians let that info slip through. He was killed years later because people recognized him and stabbed him to death

@@ironczar8975 He must've been Judas' ancestor.

@@donlalo2002 And Brutus and Cassius’.

@@donlalo2002 definitely related to Judas

They achieved something few could immortalityv

They achieved the status of Legends and immortality through their acts of heroic bravery.

​@@OaThKeeper981 this was their goal. Ancient Greeks and especially Spartans dream was to die in the battle. The believed that this way they would live forever from the stories being told and their fame

@@lilizi1902 exactly that’s why he sent the rest of the Greek soldiers to tell the story so that they would be wrote about and known forever

Imagine joe Biden fighting with the troops I can't

It's like the golden days of the History channel, before all the alien bullsh##

Sherminator!

Lol you really believe this? The number are exaggerated by 10x 😂

@@AfGG source “ trust me bro”

@@AfGG yeah I was there. It was only a couple of dudes

That's one of my favorite parts and makes me want to go see the monument/tribute lion they made for it

Problem is Greeks actually had Slaves. They weren't about all this freedom like the movie says. Persian is the only Ancient Empire that I know of that had no slaves, unlike in the movie. Guess they were ahead of their time with that.

@@mrhumble2937 well in the movie they only talk about the Persian soldiers as being slaves which they technically were as they were forced to fight for them. But the Greeks in their own states had plenty of rights lol, just not the slaves.

Many said that spartan prowess are exaggerated and fake but no doubt that day the warriors fighting in a true spartan way and few warriors has able to do what spartans did on that pass🥰

@@mrhumble2937 The Persians utilized conscription which is basically forced military slavery lol

@@10tailedbijuu plus, hot bods make up for the lack of chest armor

It’s a breastplate

They were pedophiles 😂

@@anaverageshitposter9553 and hot chest plate bods are the perfect replacement for hot natural bods

Also, they should have helmets and carry shield on left arm, spear in right hand.

15 million greeks vs 180 iranic people remains in todays world ,sth says yall failed

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@@notatroll78 what? It wasnt called Iranic. It was called 300. About the Spartans 😃

@@notatroll78 Yo. 10 M Greeks (more outside of GR) not 15 M, and 85M Iranians (more in Westwood, CA), not "180 iranic people" that's moronic. And the ones in Iran are living with bags over their women's heads and praying to the mullahs. "Better to die on your feet than live on your knees" - some ancient Greek probably...

The Persian ranks included more Greeks then the Spartans.

In today's world, there's a lot to lose and no one really has that time to be a sack of human meat in battle

I feel this way with God. Honestly no mater your beliefs look up and to the future but only with the things you truly are given strength by. *For me being a Christian and believing in the future. Surrender the whole world because we belong full of PASSION.

@@HShango When we pass away can’t bring anything with us, so what is their to lose? It’s okay to admit that you wouldn’t be brave, those brave men and women US military, sack of human meat got your six. Airforce Vet! Cross into the Blue!!

sounds like eren jaegars tatakae tatakae

@@HShango that would be just you

Your civilization now is a joke

Nowadays warriors die to quick because all the other person has to do is aim and shoot.

Greeks didn’t have a democracy and had slavery Your ideals of freedom is an illusion

@@jv_v6620 cuz they aint warriors they are soldiers

@@antares_m20 good point.

i feel the same way as an Italian. Only by blood. never been there but i dream.

Scoreboard.

@@omarsheikh6115 ?

As a Persian, you've my respect.

@@jaythaneslegion5009 i am indian no way near greek but still tears comes to my eyes when ever i am remembered of this battle ... Spartans were true heros !!!

No no, there are better ones. Like when Philip, Alexander the Great's father sent a message to the Spartan Kings saying something along the lines of "If I invade Lakonia you will be destroyed, never to rise again" and the Spartans replied with "If". Then again when Philip, after calming down a bit, sent a message "Should I arrive as friend, or foe?" The Spartan reply was "neither". And one more. An allied neighbor of the Spartans sent envoys who were holding empty sacks. They said "Our harvest has not provided enough food for us, we are dangerously low on wheat. We cannot feed our people. Please help us." The Spartan reply was "You talk too much" and they left. The next day the neighbors returned and spoke, pointing to the empty sacks "We need wheat". The Spartan reply was "That was two words too many, but we shall issue wheat." :D

Well I dont speak greek I do have a picture of the statue when I was there and what you wrote is what's written under the central part with leonidas. The greeks there say it means something like come an get them. Maybe just easier to translate to people? But great history either way

@@mikehajek64 Agreed. The Spartans were the original one liner comedians, but they meant them.

No, he said “come and take them.”

That was such a boss thing to say.

Do you think spartans were the good guys?

@@cameronhezarkhani4955 those defending their country from greedy murdering invaders were the bad guys? wake up

@@therealchen why?

@@who511 the Persian empire was actually quite peaceful and tolerant of others, slavery was actually illegal where as the Spartans more than likely had their slaves with them at thermoplaye, people love to romanticize the Greeks when all they did was fight eachother for thousands of years before the Roman’s conquered them 🤷🏽‍♂️

@@askmewhosjoe6682 do you believe the Persians were the Good guys? In history, there are no good guys or bad guys just men fighting for their territory and no matter what you believe 300 Spartans fighting a much larger force is worth respect and admiration they fought an unwinnable with assured death and never surrendered or ran

The whole world would do the same if Aliens covered the sky

@@johnjohn3668 right, that's exactly how the New World Order will be put into effect.

Sparta: We need your help. Athens: Against what? *Persia intensifies.* Athens: Ah. Yeah. We can bury the hatchet for this.

It’s amazing how a common enemy can unite people

Funny thing is after the Greeko Persian wars, Starta sided with Persia against Athens

Ephialtes earned his immortality by his infamy and ignominy, known forever as a traitor to Sparta and to Greece.

then, and again! sing of 300 men! SLAUGHTER!! PERSIANS!! Glory and death: spartans will never surrender!

@@Robert_Douglass he only betrayed Sparta because Leonidas wouldnt accept his deformed form into his ranks where Xerxes did

@@bluehornet197 He did not betray Sparta nor was he one (Sabaton got it right, the movie did not) as the movie claims, he betrayed the Greeks and did not care about Sparta.

@@havanadaurcy1321 Sparta is literally part of Greece betraying anyone in your home country literally makes you a traitor Edit: I was wrong about him being deformed and a spartan

Do you think spartans were the good guys?

@@cameronhezarkhani4955 he's on your side dumbo lol

@@cameronhezarkhani4955 Spartans were the mainlanders who were about to be invaded by Persia at the 1st place, but they stood strong and fought untill their death for almost a decade and could finally wipe out Persians from Greece, or something like that if I mightn't mess with the ending 😅 So, question isn't supposed to be raised about Spartans goodness or badness, mate :3

@@manofcreedy3228 this guy is spamming this comment

Do you think spartans were the good guys?

@@cameronhezarkhani4955 do you think murdering persian invaders were the good guys? 🤣

@@cameronhezarkhani4955 there is no good and bad in war

I'm sure if they weren't betrayed, the Spartans could've holders for a longer time

@@liveyourlife4565 this is not a open war for power. The Persians were coming to invade their lands and enslaved their people just because a king failed to conquer it previously. the Spartans are the good guys here. It's like someone try to assault you and you're the bad guy because you defended yourselves

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Read about real wars with persiay, You realize the embarrassment behind this childish story.

Bro you hear about Stalingrad;

What’s it like there? Are the Turks taking down that wall anytime soon? No offence

Nah

Saying hi from Persia !

Well yeah but spartans did it to make everyone hold them when their losses are a lot

@wargames I think they were Thebans, not thespians (actors).

Really? I thought the whole point was Dillios' dramatizing his experience at the battle to make the Spartans look cooler.

Pretty ironic considering Sparta was the exact opposite of Democracy and freedom.

If it was about freedom they would make movie about thr parthian against seleucid empire and how they take back their country

Wasn’t ancient Sparta an Oligarchy where they had the 2 king system. Then they had helots. Not a ton of freedom in the ancient city state of Sparta.

85% of spartas population were slaves and Persia was the most progressive civilization at the time

If that were the case there would be ever lasting peace. Good health.

If that’s the case today. We won’t have no wars. As long as their sons and daughters not being sent to war.

When too many bodies are in one place nothing will grow, another proof everything you ever learn from your history teacher is bs. Facts are facts, fiction is fiction.

Also, the shield itself was more valuable than the soldier because of their tactics & the construction of the shield.

did they find the traitor and confer justice?

@@rickmorgan1441 Ephialtes expected to be rewarded by the Persians, but this came to nothing when they were defeated at the Battle of Salamis. He then fled to Thessaly; the Amphictyons at Pylae had offered a reward for his death. According to Herodotus, he was killed for an apparently unrelated reason by Athenades (Greek: Ἀθηνάδης) of Trachis, around 470 BC, but the Spartans rewarded Athenades all the same.

there are far more superior history channels then this one and ones who don't get there facts wrong and actually dfo proper research unlike this one

The Spartans exchanged cloaks with the Thespians, and proclaimed to them, "you are Spartans now."

Yeah at the last battle there were 700 Thespians and whatever left of the 300. Shame the history doesnt mention them much.

@@leftkout5129 That's so sad that they are pretty much left out in every 300 story that's retold.

The light infantry persians had would actually be a very good idea if they were fighting in the rougher terrain of Persia but disastrous in an open plateau.

All greeks wore bronze armour and their archers were almost non existent nd most of them were untrained slaves

Spartans were full time, professional solders. Most others used conscripts and part time soldiers in that era. They were much better trained, fitter and more experienced.

its like tank vs honda civic with pistol . ofc tanks wins even they are outnumbered

yeah thats why ive never heard of them and the 300 ive heard of since i was a kid. yeah its a cool story dying and all but how well did they fight at the end of the day. your 2023 soft mind cant handle this truth. the story of the 300 inspired pretty much every man in Greece too and they fought better than almost any other people known in history 300 people killing over 10,000 yeah you keep on loving your thespians bro.

They were a lil above average strength.

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@@vvinters. you genius

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@@Robert_Douglass 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦

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Greeks were vassal of Darius the Great and also Greeks destroyed one Iranian empire the Achaemenid Empire under one of the worst ruler in history of Iran but Iranians like Parthians and Scythians destroyed 3 Greek empires the Seleucid empire, Indo Greek and Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and Seleucid and Greco Bactrian Empires were among the biggest and most powerful Empires of there time both got destroyed by Mithridates I the Great of Parthian Empire and also Mithridates the Great the poison king of the Pontic empire who spoke 22 languages and Rome deadliest enemy was Persian origin IRANIC ORIGIN NOT GREEK descendants of the the greatest ruler and military commander in history CYRUS THE GREAT

@@yaqubleis6311 relax

If you love the Greek world, Assassin's Creed Odyssey takes place two generations past Leonidas. It's a wonderful game with a wonderful setting and great story telling! 10/10, would recommend!

@@melorawr1608 I’ll check it out thanks`

@@melorawr1608 I was about to comment the same. Also you actually play as the grandchild of Leonidas

You guys should hear my stories about when I visit the red light districts in foreign countries. I picture myself as the 301st Spartan there to slay the women and the hot gates are the bedrooms. My body is my shield and my spear is my you know what. Lots of screaming going on.

@@brandonsavitski WTF 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

You should of watched it with her lol

That movies is 100% accurate too , all of that actually happened , only Leonaidas was 5% bodyfat not 9%

Right? Im barely holdin up at 27 💀

Born in 540 and died in 480BC, 60 Years of age.

And it was this same "cowardly" weapons that ended the Spartans.

They used archers themselves lol mainly all perioikoi

@@phantasma9391 i mean it was for a really cowardly reason. they were scared of these men who weren't even armed at this point.

@@CherryBotV2 how was that a cowardly reason? Lol. The Spartans killed a messenger, that's cowardly. Protecting your soldiers isn't cowardly, it's smart logistics.

That depends on who's point of view. David killed Goliath with a cowardly long-range weapon, a sling, yet people admire and honor him for it.

Greatest childish lie probably, Go read real history, Ask your historians don't watch cheap movies

@@ex1213 all historians say the same thing 300 spartans nd 700 thespians doing nothing go read a history book

​@@Ultrakill_V1. Go wear a diaper, Greek boi

@@user-pd9ju5dk5s if i agreed with you ,then we would both be wrong

@@Ultrakill_V1. Agree with what. That was a command, not a statement, Einstein

its what everyone knows the spartans as

also they stopped using armor after 392 BCE

Did you teacher use the Snyder film as a source

Yeah you lost.

@wargames Spartans were trained that way, it was their tradition and seeked nothing more. So it was normal for them to stay and fight. But yes I agree thespians were brave, their training and study didnt focus on war and glory yet they stayed.

@wargames Welcome to the archaic world if you do a bit more research ul find a lot of horrible places and things so I dont see why you point at "sparta" considering there were plenty of worse places if you indeed like history. Ps. Brainwash is when you get constantly forced and applied something completely against what your beliefs are till you start going that road, in this case spartans didnt have much choice since age 0 they were already tested and focused on war. In this aspect its not brainwash, its tradition and study and ancestral identity. Yes not perfect but re arrange your words. Its what they believed in and focused on, its their identity. Also have you ever lived on the streets? I have, stealing from impossible places makes you think and trains your eye, wits and timing. So in that sense id say they had the right idea. Considering they were stealing from themselves btw : )

@wargames They whipped them for getting caught so theyd get smarter and craftier in their means thats not brainwashing tho, and a lot of times pain rewires your brain so yes they whipped them so next time theyd be more careful. And that trained wits and timing as I stated before, for them to be brainwashed it means they had other choices from the start, well sad luck they didnt, it was their life that way.

@wargames I didn't delete anything tho, check the message history

Least patriotic Greek

🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷 were not that brave when mehmed the conqueror took Istanbul

@@hesam785 Least patriotic Turk

@@andresalvarez5415 bro I’m not I just don’t like it when Greek people can’t get out from ancient times, it’s 2022 the greatest battle in world was world war 2 , the bravery belongs to kids who fought for their country while they were 14 and 15 , but yet some people like this guy keep making everything patriotic

@@hesam785 Weird thing to say after doing the exact same thing. Also your country is going bankrupt

A good chunk of it was true. Obviously the Persians weren’t hideous monsters but an epic last stand did happen.

@Yourfather1372 Literally, no one cares, about YOU not caring. Stay THIRSTY my friend.

@@dogolionnovelder4951 I could see why Athens would speak such lies ( if indeed they are lies ) Sparta must have been becoming preeminent in all of the lands… which was unpleasant & odious to some !

Leonidas wasn’t set up. He knew exactly what he was doing. He would fight, he would die, and become a martyr for all of Greece to rally around. It’s similar to Pearl Harbor for the US.

It almost sounds plausible except for the fact that Greece was ignited and united against the Persians. They became hellbent on defeating Xerxes

both athens and sparta worked with persians after the war. Persians were smart and used devide and conquer. Whole history of greeks heroicly fighting of enemies outnumbered then fight eachother.

It's true

@@albertsadler4322 thanks for the confirmation

Leonidas understood that they where closing on them and told them that and whoever wants to leave now is the time. Literally nobody left

@@leonidas7914 giga chads

The Thespians and Thebans stayed. The Spartans exchanged cloaks with them, declaring, "you are Spartans now!"

Your historical knowledge is seriously lacking. We're not even close to the worst or darkest humanity has seen. The fact you see that this way just shows how pampered our generation is. our ancestors had it way harder than us and to claim we are having a hard time is a spit on their face..

Humanity is doing pretty good right now. COVID is terrible but compared to events in history it makes our current situations seem like a cheery sunny day. You should actually look into some of the darker periods in history, will really make you appreciate how good we currently have it

@@XSCSCGS Really? When were nuclear weapons invented ? A 50 megaton Tsar bomba on your head may solve the problem.

How can you say this is the worst and darkest time. Humanity is always at war and relative to the past this is a very mild disease.

@@bobbyfischer7179 and do you have nukes flying down on you? No, but you know what people in the past had? A disease that killed over half of humanity killed over 90% of many cities. Over 200 million killed mostly in Europe.

Looking back, I think it’s a bit too dramatic and misses a lot of really crucial details that further glorify how badass the Greeks really were. Should’ve been a three part movie, not two.

@@XSCSCGS he coverded the visual novel in the 2 films lol 300 was never based on history it was based on the visual novel

@@bluehornet197 yes but the visual novel was based off history.

@@XSCSCGS loosely yes doesn't mean it has to be historically accurate if the visual novel isn't lol