![]() ![]() It was a battle that would become synonymous with extraordinary courage, heroism and self-sacrifice. In the final hours, their shields broken, swords and spears shattered, they fought with their bare hands and teeth before being overwhelmed. Their orders were simple: to delay the enemy for as long as possible while the main Greek armies mobilised.įor six days the Spartans held the invaders at bay. ![]() Nearly 2,500 years ago, in 480BC, at a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of King Xerxes of Persia, a massive force rumoured to be over a million strong. Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie. Genre: Historical Fiction, Spartans, Greeks, Persians ![]()
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