On the second day, Xerxes sends in new waves of armies from Asia and other Persian city-states, including war elephants, to crush the Spartans once and for all, but to no avail. Despite some Spartans being killed, they heroically defeat the Immortals (with slight help from the Arcadians). In response, Xerxes sends in his elite guard, the Immortals later that night. During a lull in the battle, Xerxes personally approaches Leonidas to persuade him to surrender, offering him wealth and power in exchange for his allegiance Leonidas declines and mocks Xerxes for the inferior quality of his fanatical warriors. Using the Hot Gates to their advantage, plus their superior fighting skills, the Spartans repel wave upon wave of the advancing Persian army. The battle begins soon after the Spartans' refusal to lay down their weapons. Though sympathetic, Leonidas rejects him since his deformity physically prevents him from properly holding his shield this could compromise the phalanx formation. Ephialtes asks to redeem his father's name by joining Leonidas' army, warning him of a secret (goat) path the Persians could use to outflank and surround the Spartans. Meanwhile, Leonidas encounters Ephialtes, a deformed Spartan whose parents fled Sparta to spare him certain infanticide. Stelios, an elite Spartan soldier, orders him to go back to the Persian lines and warn Xerxes after cutting off his whipping arm. At Thermopylae, they construct the wall made up of stones and slain Persian scouts as mortar, angering the Persian Emissary. As Leonidas angrily departs, a messenger from Xerxes appears, rewarding them for their covert support.Īlthough the Ephors have denied him permission to mobilize Sparta's army, Leonidas gathers three hundred of his best soldiers in the guise of his personal bodyguard they are joined along the way by Arcadians. The Ephors consult the Oracle, who decrees that Sparta will not go to war during the Carneia. Leonidas then visits the Ephors, proposing a strategy to drive back the numerically superior Persians through the Hot Gates his plan involves building a wall in order to funnel the Persians into a narrow pass between the rocks and the sea.

Dilios's story continues and Persian messengers arrive at the gates of Sparta demanding 'earth and water' as a token of submission to King Xerxes the Spartans reply by killing and kicking the messengers into a well. One year after the famed Battle of Thermopylae, Dilios, a hoplite in the Spartan Army, begins his story by depicting the life of Leonidas I from childhood to kingship via Spartan doctrine.

300 is a 2006 American fantasy war film based on the 1998 comic series of the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley.

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