The Battle of Thermopylae (The 300 Spartans)

Thermopiles Memorial Epitaph:
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

The 300 Spartans (USA 1962)
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Music by Manos Hadjidakis
The 300 Spartans is a 1962 Cinemascope film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae 480 B.C. Made with the cooperation of the Greek government, it was shot in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese. It starred Richard Egan as the Spartan king Leonidas, Ralph Richardson as Themistocles of Athens and David Farrar as Persian king Xerxes, with Diane Baker as Ellas and Barry Coe as Phylon providing the requisite romantic element in the film. In the film, a force of Greek warriors led by 300 Spartans fights against a Persian army of almost limitless size. Despite the odds, the Spartans will not flee or surrender, even if it means their deaths.

Cast:
Richard Egan as King Leonidas, Agiad King of Sparta
Ralph Richardson as Themistocles of Athens
Diane Baker as Ellas daughter of Pentheus, Queen Gorgo's niece
Barry Coe as Phyllon son of Grellas, a Spartan in love with Ellas
Anna Synodinou as Queen Gorgo, Leonidas' wife
David Farrar as King Xerxes of the Persian Empire
Anne Wakefield as Artemisia, Queen of Halicarnassus
Ivan Triesault as Demaratus, exiled Euripontid ex-King of Sparta
Nikos Papakonstantinou (1920-1993) as Mardonius, Persian general
Donald Houston as Hydarnes, Persian general leader of the Immortals
Robert Brown as Pentheus, Spartan soldier second-in-command to Leonidas
John Crawford as Agathon, Spartan spy and soldier
Charles Fawcett as Megistias, Spartan priest
Kieron Moore as Ephialtes of Trachis
Yorgos Moutsios as Grellas, a Spartan in Xerxes' camp
Dimos Starenios as Samos, a goatherd living in the vicinity of Thermopylae
Anna Raftopoulou as Toris, Samos' wife
John Contes as Artovadus, Persian general
Michalis Nikolinakos as Myron, a Spartan
Sandro Giglio as Xenathon, a Spartan Ephor
Laurence Naismith as unnamed Greek delegate
Marietta Flemotomos as unnamed Greek woman at shield ceremony

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[MrShootinputin]

THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!

[Schniedragon88]

Wow. Plenty of trolling going on here...

[isbellp]

@VuBeClan Evidence: Leave any sources to prove your point, sir, good day to you.

[thorgod8]

@VuBeClan He didn't die in India idiot he died near Greece, he also created the largest empire of the time and destroyed a large empire the probable outnumbered the Macedonians by a lot. He single handedly destroyed Persia ;) . And let me tell you that Spartans killed 10k Persian and the only way the Persian king didn't lose more is because he took them out by Range.

[VuBeClan]

@isbellp XERXES CONQUERD GREECE

ALEXANDER DONT CONQUERD PERSIA THEY DESTORYED PERSIA they dont qonquerd them !!!

[VuBeClan]

@thorgod8 but i respect greek history and other history

GREEKS PERSIANS BABYLONIANS were the best in that time

IT MAKES IT AWSOME THAT THEY FIGHTED against each other and it makes cultuur and history!!!!

[VuBeClan]

@thorgod8 in yah dreams The Persians nuked THe noobi spartans AHAHAHHA

we must see battle ALexander the shit VS Cyrus the great

YEAH EVERYBody now that alexander was evil and not greek and he only tryed to get power But he failed AAHHH he died in india

[thorgod8]

Okay what is with all these Persian worshipers on this video? Saying that "PERSIANS OWNED THE GREEKS." Really annoying.

[thorgod8]

@VuBeClan Yeah 700 Greeks killed 10k Persians... they really "nuked " them...

[thorgod8]

@Mostaqueify it really happened....