Leonidas Polk

Leonidas was the king of Sparta between 488BC and 480BC. The movie “300” narrates the story of Leonidas leading 300 Spartan “body guards” and fighting to death against the massive Persian army led by “God King” Xerxes in the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. Prior to the start of the war, Leonidas knew that his army was hugely outnumbered and knew with certainty that his move against the Persians was a suicide mission. His intention was to delay the fast approaching Persian army from reaching the

There are many movies based on historical incident. The most important thing when we make ad historical movie is the historical investigation. If a screenwriter and director did not enough historical investigations, their movies completeness will be good enough to satisfy audiences and the republic of movie critics. This movie is the typical and representative movie which the director and screenwriter did not care about the historical investigation for. Sparta is a very famous city state with Athens

Zack Snyder, the director of 300, which is based on the historical battle of Thermopylae. The movie does have a lot of truth. It is true that there was an epic battle at Thermopylae where King Leonidas of Sparta took 300 soldiers, all with a male heir at home, into the ‘Hot Gates’ where they held the Persian army for three days. Xerxes did have an army of 10,000 men called the Immortals. Ephialtes, he is the one who betray Greece by showing Xerxes men the path that allowing them to surround the 300

tighter to the spear. My heart would beat a hundred miles an hour thumping loud like the beat of a drum. My heart will fall down to my toes when I would see the people fall before me with despair and those I know fight with anger in service to our King Leonidas. But all this imagining was for nothing, all this time I trained so hard and my chance had been ruined. King Xerxes then decided to send out his immortals, his elite fighters. But still the Spartans could not be beaten, Xerxes needed a miracle to

Throughout the film we hear some lines that have have came straight from the texts of herodotus such as the iconic line ‘Then we will fight in the shade’ When leonidas is informed of the rain of persian arrows that is too befall them, and the line ‘Come and take them’ when the persians try to convince Leonidas to hand over his weapons and surrender. Aswell as lines taken from the writings of herodotus, descriptions of scenes that took place in the battle have also been taken and adapted

A messenger visited Spartan and asked King Leonidas to surrender to King Xerxes and he will allow them to keep their city-state. If they declined the offer, their men would be killed and the women, elderly, and children would become Xerxes slaves. Leonidas viewed the offer as an insult and pushed the messenger into a bottomless pit. Afterwards, he selected three hundred of Spartan’s best soldiers to

There was one day where I woke up feeling like if I was going to win the lottery and it gave me a heads up that something good was going to just by the way I woke up. But at the time I was doing badly, I was on probation trying to do good again. First I had to complete 10 hours of community service so I can try to get off probation already , then I had to go pay a $350 fee because the charges I had committed at Bartow by the court house , furthermore I had to complete my community hours at my favorite

be heard booming like huge bass drums from the lake at night”1 Polk county mainly Central Florida was founded by wealthy white families in the mid 1800’s who sought opportunity of cattle and developed cities dedicated to their kind. Even with the success of building multiple towns with railroads, cattle, citrus production, and phosphate industry attracted blacks for job and property opportunities. With the migration of blacks to Polk county caused a ripple effect of segregation and for black to build

square miles of valuable territory. There are many potentially feasible explanations on the cause of the war; including, fault laying with American slaveholders for conquest of Mexico, the war as an American plot and responsibility lying with President Polk of the United States. However, this paper focuses on the three

Eisenhower, John S. D. So Far From God: The U. S. War with Mexico 1846 – 1848. New York: Random House, 1989, xxvi, 436. Mr. John Eisenhower is a retired Army General from Westchester, Pennsylvania. He is also the son of retired General and later President, Dwight D. Eisehower. He is an author as well as a military historian. Mr. Eisenhower’s other works include, The Bitter Woods, published in 1987 and critically acclaimed by Life magazine author, S. L. A. Marshall as being “written with power by