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The 300 Spartans is a 1962 CinemaScope epic historical drama film [1] depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. It was directed by Rudolph Maté and stars Richard Egan , Ralph Richardson , David Farrar , Diane Baker , and Barry Coe .
From the 1962 film The 300 Spartans: Stranger, when you find us lying here, go tell the Spartans we obeyed their orders. [160] From the 1977 film Go Tell the Spartans: Go tell the Spartans, passerby: That here, by Spartan law, we lie. Frank Miller (1998; subsequently used in the 2007 film, 300)
Erin Foster and Jeremy Bechtel were residents of Sparta, Tennessee. [1] Bechtel spoke to his father Ronnie Bechtel by telephone on the evening of April 3, 2000. Foster was seen by her brother Will the same evening. [2] Foster and Bechtel attended a party that night but returned to Foster's parents' home before leaving again.
According to Herodotus [1] Sparta had surrounded and captured the plain of Thyrea. When the Argives marched out to defend it, the two armies agreed to let 300 champions from each city fight, with the winner taking the territory. Presumably the idea was to reduce the total number of casualties.
Aristodemus was the only Spartan survivor, as he was not present at the last stand. Aristodemus and another soldier, Eurytus, were stricken with a disease of the eye, causing King Leonidas to order them to return home before the battle, but Eurytus turned back, though blind, and met his end charging into the fray.
In August 480 BC, Leonidas marched out of Sparta to meet Xerxes' army at Thermopylae with a small force of 1,200 men (900 helots and 300 Spartan hoplites), where he was joined by forces from other Greek city-states, who put themselves under his command to form an army of 7,000 strong. There are various theories on why Leonidas was accompanied ...
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The story is framed by a voice-over narrative by the Spartan soldier Dilios (David Wenham). Through this narrative technique, various fantastical creatures are introduced, placing 300 within the genre of historical fantasy. 300 was filmed mostly with a superimposition chroma key technique to replicate the imagery of the original comics.