The Battle Of Thermopylae, By Zack Snyder And Staring Gerard Butler As Leonidas

Herodotus Portrays Leonidas and the Spartans as brave and strong throughout the text because Leonidas is a Greek descent as well as Herodotus himself. In the reading of The History of Herodotus, one of the first things Herodotus states is Leonidas’ ancestors. He states, “Now Leonidas was the son of Anaxandridas, who was the son of Leo, who was the son of Eurycratidas, who was the son of Anaxander, who was the son of Eurycrates...who was the son of Hyllus, who was the son of Hercules. Leonidas had come to be king of Sparta quite unexpectedly(Herodotus 7.204). Herodotus explains how Leonidas is Greek because he is a descendant of the Greek God Hercules. This is an important aspect to consider because It is easy for Herodotus to portray Leonidas and the Spartans as

The second a Spartan child was born, they were tested to make sure they embodied the perfect image of a Spartan soldier. They tested children by dipping them into a bath of wine to test their strength and determination. Spartans believed that a weak child would convulse and die. If the child passed, they were then taken to a group of elders. If the Elders found the child deficient in any way they would be left on the sides of Mount Taygetos to die.

Spartans military was a hard core and well rounded out military in its time. Part of the reason why they were so successful is because of their rigorous training each boy had to go through. Why I said boy is because the Spartan military training would start at age 7 for a chosen boy. The boy gets chosen to live in spartan society at birth. If the Spartans did not believe that the boy would be rounded out for their society they would leave the boy to die. During the boys training hazing and fighting was encouraged to help improve strength among the boys. During spartan training each boy was mainly taught mathematics, music, and how to fight. Also during their training, they would learn how to steal but without getting caught. If they were caught they would not be punished for stealing but only for getting caught. This type of training continues until the boys would become men. Which is at the age of 20 for the Spartan's. At age 20 Spartan men would have to pass a series of demanding

Females had to give birth to strong children. Women also had to wear plain clothing, cut their hair short and did not wear make-up, perfume or jewellery. They trained to keep fit, and exercised and danced naked, they did not have that much freedom, but unlike other city states they could vote, where as the men had to fight in the military and be brave warriors. At the age of 7 Spartan boys where taken away from there mothers and trained as loyal and disciplined soldiers for military uses, they were hospitalised in dormitory's, the boys were deprived and endured harsh punishments in order to raise them strong. The Spartans were very selective over there choice of baby's and infants and if they were born with disability or of Ill health they were to be

In all versions of the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas and the Spartan army are seen as tough soldiers who grew up under harsh conditions. Spartans typically leave home to begin training on their

Firstly, the story of the 300 Spartans. The movie 300 is based off of the historic Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. The movie begins with the King of Sparta holding a newborn baby over a cliff. It next shows the spartan men training and preparing for battle at an early age. Sparta was a Greek city which houses the finest warriors, and 300 of these soldiers are chosen to intercept the Persians in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. The Persian King Xerxes lead an Army exceeding over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans. Xerxes waited 10 days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw. Tremendously outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy for three days before falling to the Persian army. A local shepherd named Ephialtes abandoned the Spartans to inform Xerxes of a separate path through Thermopylae, which the Persians could use to outflank the Greeks (Snyder et al 0-1:57:00).

And lastly, the teamwork and survival skills of the Spartans was a major key factor to how they were so effective in battle. They were not something to mess with as they tend to have a powerful standpoint on how it should be for themselves of surviving. According to document B, it is stated that they were told to steal food for themselves as they live off of having hungry stomachs but if they get caught then they would be disciplined by being whipped, enforcing that they need to work fast and efficient, because getting caught in the real world is not an option, which is why it makes them hardened warriors that almost never fail at what they do as they keep the consequences under check. However, in document A, they were trained from ages 8-21 which makes their bond for each other be at its peak. as they take this brotherly bond into battle then they would have more effectiveness of getting things done as a group, making them a force to be reckoned with. The thing as it may be is that they train their Spartans to the max in order to have the utmost effective soldiers fighting for their own beliefs, which is why their powerful

This distinctive reputation came about through many different ways. A defeat in battle in Tegea 7th C BC may have initiated their fixated focus on the army. Spartans are famous for the agoge; their ‘education system’. Nearly every healthy male child was selected after strict evaluation through the “ test” put in the wild. These young boys then endured years of systematic rigorous brutality and training until they became men, soldiers that were able to fight in the Spartan wars.

At the age of 7 boys were taken from their families and entered agoge. This program sculpts the boys into warriors. They are beaten and battered by each other, taught not to show pain. This toughness and fearlessness is seen throughout Bernard Knox excerpt. In the document Xerxes sends a man to spy on the Spartans. When he arrives to the camp he is astonished, not by the number of Spartan soldiers but by the lack of uneasiness in the men. Many men were combing there hair as if the culmination of war right around the corner was nothing more than another training exercise. After they had completed agoge around the age of 20 they were given the opportunity to fully become a Spartan solider. They had to be voted in unanimously by their peers. If they were not voted in by age 30 they would not be granted Spartan citizenship. This meant that they could not marry, hold office, or father children. However, the Spartans

They were also trained to learn how to fight, but not as harsh as the males. “The boys endured harsh physical discipline and deprivation to make them strong.” The females also did wrestling, gymnastics and many more physical training. This tells me that being physically build was a major value to Spartans. It also shows that a mother (back then) would have mostly likely not get upset if her son would have been killed at birth by being weak. Based on how they were raised, she would have probably been ashamed of bringing a weak baby. That doesn’t mean they did not care about their children, but based on how their society was based on, being physically strong was a major component to their social status. If your child was born weak, maybe they would have blamed the mother and say that she wasn’t strong enough, as a result, it was her fault her child was weak

From the time that young Spartan boys are able to walk on their own, they are “plunged into a world of violence.” As I was watching the 300 film, I was able to recognize from one of the first few scenes that a 7-year-old boy was training and preparing to be a Spartan warrior. The young Spartan boys are tossed into the wild, but not for any insignificant cost. They are fighting for Sparta, they are doing their duty and showing honor not only to the people of Sparta, but for Sparta itself. Spartan boys are trained to become the best warriors, that will fight, defend and honor all of Sparta. These boys will show no pain or mercy, and they will do whatever they can to defend Sparta. This is the first image that I thought of when I chose to write about honor and duty in

Leonidas, king of Sparta, leads a small force of three hundred men—his personal bodyguard—to a place known as the Hot Gates to meet a numberless horde of hostile Persians in combat. Prevented by oracular pronouncement from taking the entire Spartan army, Leonidas is fully aware that the mission is suicidal. Joined by about 6,700 other warriors from various Greek cities, Leonidas and his three hundred hold off several assaults by the Persians until eventually they are betrayed. As a young boy of perhaps ten years, Leonidas, like all Spartan boys, had been driven into the wilderness, alone and unarmed, to test his strength and cunning. Tracked by a huge wolf, Leonidas crafted a flimsy spear and lured the wolf into a narrow fissure in a cliff.

Throughout this essay I will claim the hardships a Spartan had to go through to become such well known warriors in history. (Thesis?) Immediately when a Spartan

The Spartans lived and breathed war. They learned to fight when they were children, and trained hard for it when they were adults.

On the morning of September 17, 480 B.C, the day known throughout history and Hollywood as the last stand of the 300 Spartans. King Leonidas and the brave Spartans faced imminent death as they fought the overwhelming 200,000 Persian soldiers. History sees this event as the battle of Thermopalae, but to Hollywood and most viewers it is better known as the movie- 300 directed by Zack Snider. The movie is very unique as it brings to light the events leading up to the one of the greatest last stands in history displayed by the Greeks. But what makes the movie memorable is the Speech given by Dilios played by actor David Wenham in the final scene. Dilios 's speech captures the attention of many for expressing passion, logic, and credibility to call his Greek army to arms as they charge against the Persians facing imminent doom.