Leonidas - Sparta's Last Stand Documentary

Leonidas documentary on the Spartan king at Thermopylae: the 300 Spartans, Xerxes' Persian invasion, Ephialtes' betrayal and the last stand of 480 BC. Xerxes I led the Persian army into Greece in 480 BC, and Leonidas I, an Agiad king of Sparta, took command of the Greek force sent to hold the pass at Thermopylae. With 300 Spartan hoplites and allied troops, including Thespians and Thebans, he blocked the Persian advance for days, until a local man, Ephialtes, showed the enemy a mountain path.

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