Two hundred and forty years ago, America’s “300 Moment” occurred during the Battle of Brooklyn ... stand resembling that of the 300 ancient Spartans at Thermopylae. The Marylanders saved ...

A scene from Thermopylae by the Italian novelist, painter and poet Dino Buzzati. The 300 or ... time of the battle, was portrayed as a hunky 36—blinds us to the real ancient Spartans.

In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae, not far from the Greek fleet, that was anchored off the nearby ...

while the Spartans hurled them into a well, suggesting that there would be plenty of earth and water at the bottom. A highly stylized version of this well-tossing scene appears in 300. It cements ...

A battle scene in 300 (2006 ... and an effort to add to the legend of the 300 Spartans for modern audiences. In adapting the comic nearly a decade after its publication, Snyder and his team ...