The movie "Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" Does this battle exist in history
Anyone who has seen the movie "The Three Hundred Spartan Warriors" will be impressed by the bravery of the Spartan warriors on the battlefield. In the movie "Three Hundred Spartan Warriors", where the Spartan warriors fought three hundred against three hundred thousand, we can't help but have some doubts. Let's talk about Sparta.
Greece has long ceased to be a country, just a place name. It is made up of many small states, the most famous of which are Athens, Sparta, Macedonia, and Troy. The most powerful of these were Sparta and Athens, and Sparta was the most prominent of these city-states. Sparta was known for its disciplined, oligarchy and militaristic politics, with oligarchy dominating. The whole country was full of soldiers, and it is no exaggeration to say that the whole people were fighting for as long as necessary, but the city-states of that time did not dare to deal with Sparta because they could not afford to fight.
On the other side of the sea was the Persian Empire, a country that oppressed its people everywhere and claimed Greek lands, so Sparta, of course, did not dare to answer.
In this way, the first Greco-Persian war broke out, the Persian army went ashore to fight his mother, and the Persian navy encountered a hurricane before it could go ashore to eat fish. Of course, the Persians would not give up, so they sent envoys to the Greek states to threaten, many of them surrendered directly, the strongest were Athens and Sparta, the brothers did not surrender, and the second Greco-Persian war broke out, and the result was not a marathon of 100,000 Persians, but 10,000 Athenians were killed.
In the Third Greco-Persian Campaign, the Persian state changed its supporters and sent an army of 100,000 men. Thus, Sparta and Athens once again joined forces to resist the Persian invasion. King Leonidas of Sparta led thousands of Greek soldiers to Thermopylae to stop the Persian army. Onsenseki is a very difficult terrain with the sea on one side and the mountains on the other, and the road in between is very narrow. The Spartans took advantage of the terrain and held for two days, but the Persians did not negotiate, which made the Spartans very frustrated. On the third day, however, a traitor appeared in Greece and told the Persians about the path, and the Persians surrounded the Spartan army around the path. Leonidas had no choice but to let a few thousand Greek soldiers retreat first, and he and 30,000 soldiers held the Thermopylae Pass until the last man fell. This is the famous Battle of Hot Springs.