Little did Leonidas know that over 2,500 years later, "Molon Lave" would be used as a global marketing tool -from weapons to ...

Many of you may know of King Leonidas from 300, the bloody excellent film where he was portrayed by the rippling physique of Mr Gerard Butler. But did you know that Leonidas was in fact a real ...

Costar Mason Thames, who stars as Hiccup in the 2025 live-action remake, says Gerard Butler personified "the giant brute force that Stoick is" ...

You play as Cassandra or Alexios, the grandchildren of Sparta's King Leonidas I. Odyssey is set during the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, and features key historical figures from ...

Both of his brothers died, and Leonidas was crowned around 490 B.C.E. Sparta set itself apart from the other Greek city-states in a number of ways. First, it was the largest at about 3,280 square ...

This bronze figurine of a Spartan warrior is from the sanctuary of Apollo Korythos in Messenia, in the south of the Peloponnese. It was made around 550 to 525 B.C., a few decades before Sparta’s ...

After the first 100,000 Persian soldiers stormed in, the federation of Greece sent 1,000 soldiers led by Leonidas I of Sparta to fight in the valley of Thermopylae in Southern Greece. 300 of them were ...

As Pride Month kicks off amid continued controversy over an outspoken LGBTQ+ military presence, the story of the all-gay Sacred Band of Thebes that defeated Sparta.

The Assassin's Creed franchise spans a massive timeline, dating from the era of King Leonidas I to England's Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s. Incorporating major historical events in their ...